The Way of Reform in Chinese Universities

Author: Gan Yang
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Publish Date: 2004-01-01
Features: Why is university reform so difficult to achieve success? One important reason may lie in the inherent dilemma involved in university reform itself. Any university reform that fails to fully recognize this dilemma and find corresponding solutions will struggle to reach its desired goals. The possibility of education lies in tradition, and education always passes on and updates this tradition through "reviewing the past to know the future." If tradition has no value, education becomes meaningless. However, university reform always faces the formidable task of transforming the "tradition" on which education relies. The subtle relationship between university reform and academic tradition requires that reform should focus on cultivating and refining an academic tradition that promotes autonomous academic development and mutual learning in teaching.