Abstracts

Thinking about higher education reform and quality improvement-A speech at the second working conference of Learn- inging Scientific Teaching Guidance Subcommittee of Ministry of Education and the eleventh academic annual conference opening ceremony of National University Seminar on Learning Science     

英文摘要

With the development of the society, there are new demands for higher education system. Sometimes these demands may affect the concept of institutional operation, thereby affects the developing process of universities. For the reason of social factors such as employment pressure and the concept of employers, some tendencies such as treating universities as vocational training in- stitution and universities ignoring their social imperatives in order to meet the needs of society come up. In order to meet the actual needs of universities＇ healthy development and manpower requirements, it is necessary to build up continuing education mechanism on which the employers play an important role. Only social roles fulfill their duties, can our education develop healthily and higher education improve continuously.     

Abstracts

In the history of educational thoughts, there are mainly three analysis paths about the purpose of education which are ＂Con- structivism＂, ＂Functionalism＂and＂Education with no purpose＂. In the view of＂Constructivism Education＂, the purpose of education is to realize person＇s own value. This analysis path include two branches, one believes that the purpose of education is to develop human＇s nature, the other claims that happiness is supreme. In the view of ＂Functionalism Education＂, the purpose of education is what the person could realize outside themselves but not the person own. For example, we could realize human socialization, political integration, economic growth or social equality through education. In the view of the ＂Education with no purpose＂, the purpose of education is to get more and better education, there is no other purpose besides education. Though there are many differences among those three analysis paths, they have a common point which is also the ulti mate target of education, it is to ＂educate full development person＂.