Definition and Construction of Student Work

Author: Guangdong Province College Student Work Professional Committee
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Publish Date: 2006-08-01
Features: In recent years, with the comprehensive advancement of the reform of China's higher education system and the rapid development of higher education, student work in colleges and universities has entered a brand-new stage of development. Under the new circumstances, the impact of the knowledge economy, the promotion of quality education, the effects of university expansion, and the reforms within universities themselves have brought about various new situations and problems, posing new requirements and severe challenges to student workers. To seize opportunities amidst challenges, student workers must keep pace with the development of the times, continuously improve their theoretical level, optimize their knowledge structure, enhance their management capabilities, and update their ideological concepts. On the basis of inheriting tradition, they must use scientific theories to guide new practices, summarize new experiences, and strive for innovative development. This is the inevitable requirement of the era and also the inevitable requirement for the development of student work in colleges and universities. This book collects 77 papers, which comprehensively reflect the new understandings, practices, and achievements of student workers in our province's colleges and universities in implementing the "Opinions of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council on Strengthening and Improving Ideological and Political Education of College Students," developing student work, and exploring new concepts, practices, and accomplishments in the interpretation and construction of student work. The "interpretation" aims to address the authors' new understandings of the scope, connotation, and extension of student work matters; the new descriptions of the attributes and characteristics of the subjects and objects of student work; and the new positioning of student concepts, nature, roles, responsibilities, and qualities. The "construction," on the other hand, focuses on the exploration and innovation of models, mechanisms, institutional theories, and methods of student work, with the goal of establishing a scientific, professional, and standardized student work system.