Research On The Social Participation In University Governance From The Perspective Of Knowledge Society

With the quiet arrival of knowledge society,the interaction between universities and the society is bound to be further deepened which will push social participation in university governance to be an inevitable trend.Moreover,new changes will take place in its participation objectives,participation patterns and path selection.From the perspective of the existing researches,on the one hand,the theoretical circle of higher education is far from paying enough attention to the quietly upcoming "knowledge society",and it is obviously insufficient to carry out specialized researches on the impacts of knowledge society towards university governance.On the other hand,as for current studies on social participation in university governance,researchers mainly focus on analyzing main body and reflecting effects of participation,as for the explorations on problems such as "how to participate in the governance",“what are the rules of participatory governance”,though such sorts of research have somewhat appeared,they are still spontaneous,sporadic,lack of an in-depth system generally.In this background,in order to provide practical countermeasures for the modernization of our country's university governance,regarding problems of social participation in university governance from the perspective of knowledge society as the research object,this article has carried on the deep discussion on the history of social participation in university governance,the impact on the university and its management,knowledge society of social participation in university governance model reconstruction and so on by the methods of historical research,literature research and comparative research.Firstly,from the perspective of historical sociology,this article examines the interaction between universities and society under different social forms in history.Then,by sorting out the classical literature,this paper in detail discusses the challenges that knowledge society may bring to universities and their governance.On this basis,after carrying on deep thinking and research on several aspects of social participation in university governance from the perspective of knowledge society including the new connotation,paradigm and path selection and so on,this article proposes that in knowledge society,the social main body of university governance should form a “social participation system” instead of conducting individual behaviors distributedly.With the changes of the new revolution of science an technology and concepts on development,the connotation of "participation" will be enriched,the participation paradigm will also turn itself from a perceptual one into a rational one,from a single-center governance paradigm into a multi-center network paradigm.In terms of participation path selection,three aspects need to be seriously paid attention to: firstly is to achieve commonbelief based on the understanding of knowledge value and function;secondly is to continuously enhance the behavioral ability of social participation;thirdly is to ensure the institutional supply of social participation in university governance.Through researches,this article proposes some countermeasures and suggestions on how to promote the social participation in university governance.