关于高职教育的性质、定位与特色建设问题

On problems about the nature, orientation and characteristic construction of higher vocational education

高等职业教育作为高等教育一种新的类型,在高等教育大发展的短短五年里,已经成为我国高等教育的"半壁江山"。高等职业教育的迅猛发展,不仅远远超前于办学条件的发展,而且也使得高等职业教育的理论准备略显滞后,因此在高职教育的性质、定位以及特色建设等方面都存在一些模糊的认识和做法。通过把高职院校置于高等职业教育系统、高等教育系统以及社会系统的三个系统中进行分析,提出了高等职业教育的八个性质、八个定位和八个特色建设的问题,并进一步讨论了它们的内涵及内在联系。

Higher vocational education has held up half of the sky of China's higher education in the past five years, which witnessed the rapid development of higher education. This rapid development has not only gone far beyond the capacity of school, but also gone ahead of the existing theory of vocational education. There has been and still is vague cognition and practice about the nature, orientation and characteristic construction of higher education. Therefore, according to our analysis, based on the approaches by putting vocational education into higher vocational education system, higher education system and social system respectively, this paper puts forward eight natures, eight orientations and eight characteristic constructions, and discussed their connotations and interrelations as well.