The Research Of The Status Quo And Strategy Of Cultivating Reserve Talents Of Academic Profession In Mainland China

The doctoral education has made great breakthrough in both scale and quality with the popularization of higher education in China.Doctoral students have become the main source of academic staff in universities.However,the lack of doctoral students' preparation for academic career is affecting the further improvement of higher education.Eye on the world,many countries and regions have carried out different forms of projects and activities to prepare the doctoral students for their academic career.It can provide some helpful suggestions for the cultivation of reserve talents of academic profession in Mainland China.The purpose of research is to explore the status quo of cultivation of reserve talents of academic profession based on the methodologies such as literature study,comparative method,case study and interviews.Firstly,this paper straightens out the relationship between academic and doctoral education based on the existing literature.Secondly,from comparative perspective,it analyzes the relationship between the academic profession and the doctoral education in the United States and Japan,focuses on the projects of the cultivation of reserve talents of academic profession of the two countries which are preparing future faculty program and pre-faculty development program,takes specific project of he cultivation of reserve talents of academic profession in Duke university and Tokyo university as examples.Finally,based on discussing the relationship between academic career and doctoral education in China,it investigates the doctoral students' academic career choice,academic career preparation and actual demand by selecting the doctoral students of Xiamen University.There are three main findings.Firstly,academic profession and doctoral education are closely linked,and doctoral education is the reproductive mechanism of academic profession.Doctoral education from its birth assumes the responsibility of cultivation of reserve talents of academic profession,and should reform along with the evolution of the connotation and organizational basis of academic profession.Secondly,the appearance of preparing future faculty program and pre-faculty development program is based on the foundation of academic profession and doctoral education in America and Japan.In the process of project implementation,these programs show a stage of the characteristics.Thirdly,along with the development of academic profession and doctoral education,doctoral education in Mainland China should provide reserve talents for academic profession.However,through interviews,it shows that the professional choice of doctoral students is still still academic profession,but the environment of academic profession,the existing doctoral training model and the one-sided understanding of the connotation of academic connotation of doctoral students lead to the deficiencies of preparation of academic profession.Based on the above conclusions,the research puts forward the following suggestions.In order to cultivate reserve talents of academic profession,at the national level,it is necessary to improve academic career choice of doctoral students by guaranteeing the status of academic profession,reforming the teacher evaluation system,promoting the doctoral education reform,paying attention to the development of the pre-faculty development.At institutional level,research university should revise training programs of doctoral students,promote interdisciplinary research,strengthen cooperation in production and research and provide teaching preparation projects to help doctoral students to do academic career preparation.At personal level,doctoral students should reshape academic research,clear the connotation of academic profession,internalize academic ethics and improve the awareness of the preparation of academic profession to strengthen the inner force of the preparation for academic profession.