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The Key Competences Of University Students And Its Cultivation From The Perspective Of Modernization Of Higher Education

Posted on:2020-12-19Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:J ChenFull Text:PDF
GTID:2417330572457101Subject:Higher Education
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The robust higher education is a symbol of the comprehensive national strength of a country,such as Harvard,Yale,Preston for the United States,Cambridge and Oxford for the United Kingdom.That China's comprehensive national strength soars to the top needs the guidance of strong higher education.Currently,China has proposed that the modernization of higher education should be accomplished thirty years earlier than the modernization of the country.In face of modernized higher education that takes the modernization of human and cultivates creators who are capable of adapt themselves to and change the future,how to develop the high-level core competitive competences embedded in human has become a focus of numerous countries and international organizations.Therefore,the exploration of the key competences of university students and its cultivation is,at the present stage,not only an inheritance and creation of the implementation of the Suzhi Education,but also a theoretical and practice issue on improving the education quality of higher education institutes against the backdrop of China's Double-first-class Construction of higher education.This study is conducted from the perspective of modernization of higher education,takes the discussion on the definition of "higher education modernization" and "key competences of university students" as the logical starting point and adopts as the theoretical base Ingalls' theory on human modernization(1960s-1970s)and the embodied cognition's theory of cognitive science.Based on the review of a wide range of literature,it fully demonstrates theoretically the feasibility of this study and argues that the key competences of university students are the high-level ones utilizable for human being to deal with effectively globalization,knowledge economy and information society in the 21 century.These high-level competences also involves the integration and immersion of core abilities,essential characters and values.They are the competences required of university students to cope with complex and uncertain situations and the cultivation and nurture of these competences is reliant on the complex situations and solution of real problems.On this basis,the study analyzes the internal connections and the shared value of higher education modernization and university students' key competences.It points out that the key competences of university students is the pursuit and concentrated expression of the modernization of human beings,the realization of latter implies the pursuit of the students' key competency.It sheds light on the essential features of the key competences of university students and indicates further that implementing the modernization of human beings represents the pursuit of the fundamental value of the modernization of higher education and the key competences of university students.Focusing on the core concerns of students in China and abroad,it proposes in a summarizing manner that achieving the high-quality life of human beings serves as the axis for the core element of key competences required of university students with the context of the modernization of higher education,focusing on innovation competency,critical thinking,social competency,and mobility competency.This is the focus and foothold of this study,i.e.,the cultivation of university students' key competences within the context higher education modernization.It also points out specially that the crucial condition for cultivating these competences reside in complex situations and solution of real problems and elaborates on the feasible path to these competences from four dimensions,including interdisciplinary academic organization,classroom environment,teacher teaching,and new models of classroom education is proposed.It proposed explicitly concrete measures,practical and able to be operated for Chinese university students to improve their competences of innovation.These measures include: to reconstruct interdisciplinary academic organizations aiming at cultivating the university students' key competences,consolidate interdisciplinary curriculum resources,and promote the transferable competences,integrate multicultural sharing and open classroom environment,enhance cross-cultural skills,change teachers' teaching concepts,reshape the new mode of classroom education,and consolidate the real problems and complex situations,guide students to move from low-level cognitive ability to higher-level cognitive ability for the cultivation of their high-level thinking competence,i.e.,critical thinking ability.
Keywords/Search Tags:Modernization of higher education, Modernization of human beings, Key competences, Key competences of university students, Cultivation
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