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Cultural Quality Education in Chinese Universities: Rise, Rationales and Approaches

Received: 11 January 2022     Accepted: 24 January 2022     Published: 9 February 2022
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The development of Chinese higher education over the past 30 years cannot be separated from the reform of cultural quality education. The rise of the reform was under the background of emancipating the mind in the whole society and strengthening education reform in educational field. The purpose was to break through the disadvantages of narrow professional education and promote university students’ comprehensive quality. Theoretically, it insists that true education is both cultural education and quality education, through which building human's cultural life and improving human’s comprehensive quality. It advocates educating man rather than manufacturing tools. It takes culture as an integrity, not being separated apart. It insists on educating man with holistic and integrated culture, not separated culture, or prejudiced, narrow-minded culture. The approaches stress on both heritage and innovation, such as integrating humanistic education and science education, emphasizing national culture education, promoting poetry education, and meeting the needs of the modern, the world, and the future. It tries hard to enlarge and thicken university students’ knowledge foundations, to broaden their specialty, to widen their visons, to cultivate their rational principle and thinking ability. On the whole, cultural quality education reform is Chinese innovation of educational theory and practice. It is effective in practice and has improved the quality of higher education in China.

Published in International Journal of Education, Culture and Society (Volume 7, Issue 1)
DOI 10.11648/j.ijecs.20220701.15
Page(s) 27-32
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Cultural Quality Education, Chinese Higher Education Reform, Theoretical Innovation, Practical Approaches

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