An Analysis of Teacher's Professional Development of Higher Vocational Education

Teachers are the backbones of any educational institutions. They not only play vital roles in students' development;they also directly affect the stature of their respective scholastic organizations. Highly qualified instructors produce competent and well-rounded students— learners who are more than ready to face the quirks and challenges of the labor force. This paper primarily discusses the following questions: What is teacher's professional development? What is higher vocational teacher's professional development? And how can scholastic institutions promote it? The conclusion states that the characteristics of higher vocational education directly influence the higher vocational teacher's professional development; therefore, it must be nurtured and promoted for the development of all the stakeholders of learning institutions – students, teachers, management staff,the learning institution itself, and the nation as a whole.

Evaluation of Technical Education by Using a Modern Structured MOODLE Laboratory Course, in Relation to Recent Data

E-learning platforms support education systems worldwide, transferring theoretical knowledge as well as soft skills. In the present study high-school pupils’, and adult students’ opinions were evaluated through a modern structured MOODLE interactive course, designed for the needs of the laboratory course “Automotive Systems”. The study concerns Greek secondary vocational education pupils aged 18 and vocational training adult students aged 20 to 50 years. The multistage, equal size simple random cluster sample was used as a sampling method. Pupils and adult students of each cluster completed structured 10-question questionnaires both before and after attending the course. A total of 120 questionnaires were collected. In general, our findings disclosed that the majority of pupils and adult students had significantly improved their knowledge and skills from using MOODLE. They reported strengthening conventional teaching, using the new MOODLE technology. The satisfaction indices improved quite, with the differences in their mean values being statistically significant.

Vocational education and training(VET)should be highlighted in the educational system in China

Nowadays,Chinese vocational education and training is in its developing period.And the vocational education plays a vital role in Chinese economy.However,compared with the general higher education in China,it seems that the vocational education has the poor development.So,at the beginning of this article,the background and the current situation of the vocational education in china will be briefly introduced.Then,this article will mainly argue three reasons to prove that it is necessary to develop the vocational education and training in the educational system in China.Therefore,the purpose of this article is emphasizing why the vocation education needs to be developed.

Accreditation System of Distance Higher Education in the U.S. and Its Implications for China

Distance higher education is an important component of the Chinese higher education.How to enhance the quality of distance higher education is one of the key issues to be addressed in the research areas of distance education and higher education.As a crucial step to quality improvement,the constitution of accreditation system in distance higher education balances the benefits of all parties involved.This paper explores the American accreditation system of higher education and distance education and concludes with suggestions for the constitution of the Chinese quality assurance system:1)establishing third-party institutions to share part of the government roles;2)constituting the accreditation system;3)setting up appropriate standards;4)publicizing results of quality assurance work;and 5)building internal quality assurance mechanism.This paper is aimed to provide some reference to the constitution of accreditation system of distance higher education in China,facilitate the solution of quality problems in distance education,and promote the continuous improvement and development of distance education in China.

From Mutual Creation to Mutual Benefit:China’s National Teacher Training Program between Higher Teacher Education and K-12 Teachers

Sustainable Development Goal(SDG 4)lays solid theoretical foundation for the development of higher teacher education in improving the quality of teaching faculty nationwide.Sustainable teacher training paves a way for teacher professional development in the long run.China’s“National Teacher Training Program”serves a connection between higher teacher education and K-12 teachers in multiple perspectives when exploring K-12 teachers’improvement of the essence by upgrading the initiative of the program with the assistance of educational technology and modern educational philosophy from mutual creation to mutual benefit.Direction orientation strategic design based on demand for teaching faculty,curriculum setting in modules,and characteristics creation have been carried out to upgrade the training of teacher colleges and National Teacher Training Program in the future for achieving a win-win situation between higher teacher education and K-12 education.

REFORMING CHINA'S HIGHER ENGINEERING EDUCATION

This article expounds that China’s higher engineering education is facing both challenges and opportunities. Some special difficulties and problems rise in the course of economic transition, and exhort us that it has been of great urgency to carry out a reform of higher engineering education. Here are put forward six measures: to explore training patterns of such an education suited to China’s national conditions; to improve university system: to transform educational ideology, and reform educational contents and methods; to establish a system of cooperation of engineering universities and colleges with industries; to strengthen construction of teacher contingent in engineering universities and colleges; and to carry out testing work of continuing engineering education and training education.

Contribution of Development of China's Higher Education to Human Rights Undertaking

Human rights are the rights and freedoms of humans in their nature, and represent the basic conditions for the free and complete development of the humankind. The educational develop- ment level is an important mark of the level of realization of human rights. China＇s higher education realized the historic development in the 1998- 2007 period, and the number of the enrolled students at common colleges and universities across the nation had exploded from 3.4 million to 18.85 million, the number one in the world.

The 21^(st) century system reform and development mode of construction management education (CME) in China

With China’s entry into WTO and the development of the economic globalization, market competition in the construction field is more and more featured by the competition of talents, the core of which is the cultivation mechanism innovation of higher construction management talents. The approach to meet the requirement of this situation is to adopt innovation ideas, improve the supply-demand structure of CME, reform the education system to relate theory to practice, pay attention to the needs of the educated, enhance global communication and cooperation, and improve the knowledge structure of teachers.

Contributing to Sustainable Development——The Mission and Value of Higher Education

Some notes on sustainable development and scientific outlook on development were given. It is addressed that the mission of higher education to contribute to sustainable development should be reinforced and further expanded. The present situation of China's higher education and the improvements required were analyzed. Two modes of thinking (reductionism and holism) and the relationship between the mode of thinking and the mode of development were discussed. The change in the mode of thinking is the key point for Chinese higher education, and more intensive reform of teaching affairs is necessary. A proposal of the revision of China's Higher Education Act and University Constitutions was put forward.

Policy-Driven Development and the Strategic Initiative of One-Million Enrollment Expansion in China’s Higher Vocational Education

Purpose:This article explores the relationship between governmental policy and the development of higher vocational education in China.Design/Approach/Methods:The article begins with a textual analysis of dozens of policy documents on higher vocational education issued by the Chinese government since 1999.Findings:The article argues that the development of higher vocational education in China has been largely policy-driven.This development can be divided into four stages:scale development,quality improvement,capacity building,and systemwide enhancement.The transition between each of these developmental stages was marked by new policy initiatives undertaken by the Chinese government.Originality/Value:The government’s recent efforts to expand higher vocational education enrollment by one million students have significant implications for China’s higher vocational education.Additionally,the proposed“1 + X”model—which attaches equal importance to academic education and skill training—may represent the beginning of a new stage in the development of higher vocational education in China.

高职院校“四史”教育融入思政课教学路径研究

“四史”教育融入高职院校思政课教学,对丰富思政课教学内容、思政课教学案例开发、开展选择性必修课具有重要作用。目前,高职思政课教学过程中存在“四史”教育内容片面化、碎片化、理想化的现象。把“四史”教育整体性融入思政课、开设以党史为重点的选择性必修课、完善思政课课程体系建设等,发挥“四史”教育在思政课理论教学中的引导作用和实践教学中的实践认知作用,对思政课教学、立德树人任务落实以及对树立正确的“大历史观”具有重要意义。

高职院校校园文化建设与“四史”宣传教育深度融合的思考

校园文化建设对于学校人才培养工作具有重要意义,高职院校应当重视校园文化建设对学生综合素质的培育作用,呼应时代需求,创新校园文化建设内容和途径。文章分析阐述了高职院校校园文化建设与“四史”宣传教育相融合的重要意义和建设原则,并提出二者深度融合的实施路径。

高职教育生态可持续发展的内涵特征与评价指标体系构建——基于中部六省高职教育质量年报数据的分析

高职教育生态可持续发展理念强调高职教育系统中各要素的有机整合,以人为本、生态调适、和谐共生、可持续发展为其内涵要义,结构层面系统性、目标层面双向保障性、行动层面协同性为其基本特征。根据“承载力—支持力—吸引力—延续力—发展力”(CSAED)模型,可从高职教育环境质量有效改善、规模增长适度增强、资源结构不断优化、产出价值充分发挥、投入活力显著提升五个方面构建高职教育生态可持续发展的评价指标体系。基于中部六省高职教育质量年报数据,对各地区高职教育生态可持续发展情况进行综合分析,为各地区高职教育生态可持续发展评价提供基础理论支持与实践应用指导。

中国式现代化视域下高职教育“点线面体”特色学徒制体系构建

在中国式现代化视域下,高职教育“点线面体”特色学徒制体系构建有助于促进中国式教育现代化,有利于推动高职教育高质量发展,有益于深度开发技术技能人才。立足中国式现代化发展要求,从梳理参与者作用点、明确资源流动线、延展实操行动面、打造系统循环体四方面出发,构建中国式现代化视域下高职教育“点线面体”特色学徒制体系。面向中国式现代化,该体系的具体实施路径为:厘清特色学徒制的发力点,建立多中心协同育人模式;明确特色学徒制的切入线,推动四链加速聚合;夯实特色学徒制的行动面,完善高职教育顶层设计;创建特色学徒制的生态体,培养大国工匠。

高职院校体育健康模式构建的策略研究——以“健康中国2030”为视角

高职院校发展体育健康教育是适应时代发展的必然要求,体育模式的构建是高职院校体育工作继续发展的现实需求,更是学生体质健康的重要性的显著体现。通过以“健康中国2030”为背景,对当前我国高职院校构建体育健康模式进行策略分析,发现当前存在学生兴趣占据健康模式构建的重大比重、高职院校体育教学的硬件与软件设施紧缺、构建体育健康模式的信息较为匮乏等不足之处。因此,高职院校应注重高职体育教师自身素质培养,制定合理体育健康模式的雏形,以人为本作为高职院校提供体育健康模式构建的理论思路以及培养安全急救能力来构建健康的教学内容和模式。

湖南红色文化资源融入高职大学生党史教育路径探赜--以长沙商贸旅游职业技术学院为例

湖南被誉为“革命摇篮,伟人故里”,诞生了一大批老一辈无产阶级革命家和军事家,湖南的红色文化资源遍布三湘四水,是开展党史学习教育的重要资源。将湖南红色文化资源融入高职大学生党史教育,能够提高党史教育活动的实效性,促进红色革命精神的传承及发展,拓展高职院校开展学生党史教育的途径,更好地落实立德树人根本任务。高职院校应从依托思政课堂、打造第二课堂、搭建网络育人平台等方面入手,将湖南红色文化资源融入党史教育教学、校园文化和社会实践活动中,从多个角度引领学生,培养德才兼备的优秀人才。

基于“中国外语教材编写理论体系”的高职英语教材编写研究--以航海英语教材编写为例

在三教改革的背景下,教材建设的重要性提升到了前所未有的高度。为了提高高职院校英语教材的编写质量,以航海英语教材为例,探讨应用中国外语教材编写理论,从紧贴行业发展、融合多元文化、设计POA教学活动、分析学生学情和规范编写管理这五个步骤进行教材编写。

China-ASEAN Relations in Higher Education:An Analytical Framework

China’s dramatic economic rise has tended to overshadow other wider perspectives on the developing China and Association of Southeast Asian Nations(ASEAN)relationship,including in higher education.The article examines contemporary relations between China and ASEAN,set against the longer term development of cultural and trade relations.It is argued that,notwithstanding current territorial disputes,and a history of discrimination against ethnic Chinese in several parts of ASEAN,prospects for a deepening of relations in higher education remain strong.Singapore,Malaysia,and Vietnam are selected as three instances of the developing relationship in higher education and some of the links traced,with the former assessed as best placed to take advantage of its China relations in higher education.The developing sense of regionalism is seen as likely to further enhance China-ASEAN relations in higher education.

How did women’s education and differential family planning policies shape transition to second and third births in historical China? New evidence from micro data

The influence of China’s family planning policies on fertility transition is widely acknowledged in research studies.However,little is known about how improve-ments in women’s education have shaped reproductive decisions of Chinese women across different family planning regimes,particularly at micro level.This study uses retrospective pooled birth history data from five consecutive population and fam-ily planning surveys collected over the period 1982-2006 to systematically examine the interrelationship between family planning policies and women’s education,and their interactive effect on the second and third birth transitions.We hypothesize that family planning policies had a differential influence on educational groups in reduc-ing the transition to second and third births.The results from discrete time com-plementary log-log survival models provide strong evidence of differential repro-ductive behavior of education groups across time in China,and the simultaneous influence of women’s education and family planning policies in lowering risks to higher parities.The rates of progression to second and third births tend to be lower after the introduction of rigid family planning policies,and more importantly,the policy impact persisted even after adjusting for demographic and socioeconomic factors.The increase in women’s education overall had a depressing effect on transi-tion to higher parities,and family planning policies implemented overtime have had differential effects on women from different educational groups.The findings show that both family planning policies and women’s education have been instrumental in shaping fertility behavior in China.

党史教育融入高职院校思政课探析

推进党史学习教育常态化是党的建设的一项重要任务,将党史教育融入高职院校思政课有助于丰富高职院校思政课教学内容、提升高职院校思政课教师理论素养及进一步坚定高职生的理想信念。目前,党史融入高职院校思政课存在着思政课堂融入度不够、党史教育学习方式和载体缺乏创新、党史教育实践教学活动形式不够丰富等问题。对此,高职院校要通过加强思政课教师党史教育专题集体备课、构建党史学习教育新媒体传播平台、丰富党史教育实践教学活动等举措,切实提升党史教育融入高职院校思政课的实效性。