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Xiong, Jie – Frontiers of Education in China, 2013
From the perspective of neoinstitutionalism, higher vocational education has become an emerging institution in Chinese society. Its development over three decades entails a trend of institutionalization of higher vocational education. In such a process, higher vocational education is gaining legitimacy and experiencing isomorphic changes. Various…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Higher Education, Institutional Characteristics, Educational Change
Xiong, Jie – Frontiers of Education in China, 2011
The development of higher vocational education in China embodies a global trend of vocationalism that values skills and skilled workers, which is opposite, in some ways, to the Confucian tradition in Chinese education that values theoretical knowledge related to good governance. As the cultural trend supporting the development of higher vocational…
Descriptors: Ethical Instruction, Confucianism, Global Approach, Skilled Workers