The Dilemma and Path for Chinas General Education Development in Universities Since 40 Years of Reform and Opening up

Abstract

Many universities bear the important responsibility of cultivating high-quality talents for the country, and it has become an inevitable choice to carry out general education. Since 40 years of reform and opening up, general education has made great development. However, there are many difficulties to be solved in general education because the research on general education has not yet matured, and there is a lack of formed institutional norms and generalizable practice models, as well as the phenomenon of utilitarianism of the concept of general education and fragmentation of general education courses. By reviewing previous research, this paper examines the dilemma and path for Chinas general education development in universities since 40 years of reform and opening up. Finally, it is concluded that the future development path of general education in Chinese universities is to correct students cognition of general education, improve the recognition of general education, and integrate the resources of general education.