Development and Construction of Higher Education in China under Perspective of Lifelong Education

Jiejuan Tang,Yuzhou Li,Wei Zhu

doi:10.12973/ejmste/80787

Abstract

The concept of lifelong education has four indicators: school education, social education, formal education and non-formal education. Under the concept of lifelong education, the concept of “higher education” can be summarized as four indicators, such as regular higher education, adult higher education, self-study higher education examination and distance network education. Foreign scholars consider that the concept of “higher education” is aimed at adults, which has little relevance with the concept of lifelong education. In China, the influence of concept of lifelong education on the construction and development of “higher education” is not proposed clearly. Based on the research status, SWT analysis method was introduced. The internal relation between the concept of lifelong education and the concept of higher education was analyzed through the four groups of corresponding relationship between internal advantage and external advantage. Through the detailed analysis of four groups of corresponding relationship such as the school education and regular higher education, the social education and adult higher education, the normal education and self-study higher education examination, the non-formal education and distance network education. The conclusion that the concept of lifelong education could promote the development and construction of concept of higher education in China was obtained. In the process of analyzing each component, the conclusion that the external variables also increased with the increase of internal variables could be obtained. Integrating the variation tendency of four components, the overall variation trend between concept of lifelong education and the concept of “higher education” was obtained. Through this analysis, blanks in our academic research are filled. The concept of lifelong education has a strong role in promoting the development and construction of the concept of higher education. Through a detailed analysis, we will find a better way to develop higher education.

Highlights

Lifelong education refers to the summation of all kinds of education that people receive in different stages of their lives
The basic relationship between four internal advantage components such as the school education, social education, formal education, non-formal education and the four external advantage components such as regular higher education, adult higher education, self-study higher education examination, distance web-based learning can be obtained, which is shown in Table 1 (Akre and Suris, 2017)
It can be considered that the level of school education is increased, which has a promoting effect on the level of regular higher education. (2) discussion of relationship between the level of social education and the level of adult higher education From the change of pie chart in Figure 3, there is a dynamic relationship between the level of social education and level of adult higher education

Summary

Introduction

Lifelong education refers to the summation of all kinds of education that people receive in different stages of their lives It is the unification and comprehensiveness of different types of education (Han, 2017; Neto and Wilks, 2017). It includes the all stages and various ways of education system, which has school education and social education, and has formal education and non-formal education. Even so far there is no unified authoritative conclusion (Huang, 2015; Garvey, 2017) This fact reflects the level of concern of new educational idea, and proves that there is the difference between comprehensive explanation and rigorous argumentation in the theory and practice (Guerrero and Roberts, 2017)

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