Research On College Students’ Democratic Participation In College Student Affairs Administration

College student affairs and college student affairs administration originates from Europe and America, and it is the product of American higher education, From the content, college student affairs and college student affairs administration are equivalent to our students work. It is an inevitable requirement of college administration. With the evolution of socialist democracy in China, especially the advancement of the construction of socialist at the grassroots level, the democratization of college administration has become the inevitable requirement of the development of higher education, and it is the significant guarantee of the realization of students’democratic rights. To boost the democratization of college administration and to come true the democratic participation rights of college students, it is the only road to encourage and support strongly college students participate in college student administration. Although lots of colleges and universities are committed to actively promoting college students’ participation in college student administration, because of the deficiencies of sound theoretical guidance, it leads to have many problems in the process of implement. Participatory democracy theory formed between 1960s and 1970s, and it is the revival of classical democratic theory. Participatory democracy theory is a hot spot of western democracy theory, and there are many similarities between socialist democracy theory and deliberative democracy theory. Under the guidance of Marxism democratic participation ideas and drawing on the main points of the theory of participatory democracy, it not only provides theoretical support and route selection for students’ democratic participation in college student affairs administration, but it is also beneficial to solve the issues which exist in the college student affairs administration when college students take part in it.First of all, the author of the paper combs the ideas of Marxism classical writers concerning the ideas of democratic participation and introduces further the main points of participatory democracy theory about citizen participation. On this basis, the author of the paper expounds the enlightenment about students’ democratic participation in college student affairs administration in terms of the participatory democracy theory. Furthermore, from the perspective of the participatory democracy theory, the paper discusses the value when college students participate democratically in college student affairs administration, namely improving the democratic literacy the democratic participation of college students themselves, promoting the democratization construction of college student affairs administration, promoting the democratic construction in the grassroots level. Thirdly, the author explains the path exploration of participating in college student affairs administration in our country and discusses the current democratic participation’s three main paths. It has student assistant principal system, student council system and student democratic administration committee. By analyzing the investigation sample, the author summarizes the problems existing in the college students’ democratic participation in college student affairs administration and the cause of problem formulation. Eventually, under the Marxism classical writers’ ideas of democratic participation guidance, the author puts forward to the countermeasures of promoting college students’ democratic participation in college student affairs administration in terms of participatory democracy theory. It includes the establishment of the contemporary management ideas, the perfection of college students’ democratic participation mechanism and the improvement of the capacity of college students’ democratic participation.