From Margin To Center: A Study On The Development Tropisms Of Higher Education In Hebei Province

As an important proportion of social system, higher education kept on continuous contacts with economy polity culture and other social subsystems since it came into being. With the continuous development of social productivities and the transform of produce fashions, the connections between higher education and other social subsystems become increasingly tight. Higher education gradually entered into the margin of society from the ivory tower where is far from the society before, and it is going to be the center energy that promotes the development of social economy polity and culture. In this process, the functions of higher education were keeping on developing too. So, all of countries and areas put the higher education into the strategic status of first development.This article will strive to take the theory of Margin-Center as a tool of analyze to unscramble the history of the development tropisms of higher education in Hebei province. And I will try to clarify the logistic bases and realistic paths that realize the well mutual development of higher education and the social subsystems of economy polity culture and so on. This study considers that if the higher education would be the axes that promoted the development of economic society, it should have the capacity to enter the center of society first. This capacity is that the inner system of higher education should sufficient conformed, brings effective energy, and then releases the energy to society reasonably. So as to form the energy of promote the development of society. The demands of social development to higher education represent especially on elite cultivating, science and technology support and academic service directly. Higher education is going to fulfill the task in teaching research and social services, gets the support of the society, and then forms the continuous energy to promote self development.The needs of social development to higher education are multiple. But when facing the multiple needs, all the kinds of colleges and universities have the possible toward the same style. This problem shows especially on the orientations, the contents of education and the paths of school development. If we could not conform the system of higher education rationally, the system of higher education would dysfunction. And then affect the aim of toward the center of society. Therefore, one of the basic paths of the higher education to move toward the social center is that there must be self-contained functional system and the functional adjusted mechanism to keep it producing power to lead the social development. Based on the understanding above, this paper keeps the higher education moving toward the social center as the logic theory and takes the training of higher educational persons with ability in Hebei province, the functional history evolvement of science research and social work as the master line to analyze the existing question.This dissertation is divided into seven chapters.Chapter One is an introduction. It mainly elaborates the reason of choosing this subject and the present situation of this research and puts forward the basic mentality and the method of this study.Chapter Two mainly analyzes the theoretical base in the process of higher education moving toward the social center. It explores the intention, the essential features, the power and the route of the higher education moving toward the social center from the angle of higher educational function upon the social development.Chapter Three, Chapter Four and Chapter Five analyze and present the development of three essential functions on training of higher educational persons with ability in Hebei province, scientific study and social work. The three chapters seek for the history and effect of each function, clears off the developing venation and summarizes the historical achievement and the limitation.Chapter Six reveals the principal contradiction and question during the higher education moving toward the social center in Hebei province. Moreover, it puts forward the policy and suggestion of higher education moving toward the social center in Hebei province using the experience of developed countries for reference.Chapter Seven is the conclusion. It states the main conclusion of this research. It also mentions the innovation and the shortage of the research. The innovation of this paper is that it makes a systematic theoretical discussion for the history of Hebei's higher education, labors the practice of Hebei's higher education moving toward the social center. It puts forward the unification with the functional release and cooperation during the higher education moving toward the social center, with the diversity of higher education as well as with the mutual action of the society. The theoretical elements and the historical contents in this dissertation can be taken as the foundation of other researchers to study the same or similar issues.