民国时期私立职业学校述论

A General Review on the Vocational Education in the Republic of China

中国近代意义上的私立职业学校发轫于清末新政之后,至民国时期得以迅速发展,并成为近代职业学校教育的重要组成部分。在其发展过程中,呈现出办学者教育理念的开放性、教学内容与方式的多元化和实用性以及生存基础的脆弱性等基本特点。民国时期私立职业学校对于促进近代中国教育的发展以及教育与社会经济的结合起到了重要的历史作用。

China＇s private vocational institutions in a modern sense originated in the wake of the New Deal of the late Qing Dynasty. They experienced a speedy growth during the period of the Republic of China. As the vocational schools grew in number, the school systems of management and administrative measures as a whole improved step by step. The private vocational schools displayed significant characteristics in the course of their development. They were at the frontline of educational reforms at the age of the social reforms and they better featured the organizers＇ educational concepts and the operational guidelines for openness, diversity and practicality. While the private vocational schools were still at the initial stage of development, weak and unstable, they played a positive part in promoting the association of education and social economy in modern China.