BULLETIN OF JAPAN SOCIETY FOR STUDY OF VOCATIONAL AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION
Online ISSN : 2433-197X
Print ISSN : 1340-5926
The Teaching Staff and Teacher Organization in Higher Vocational Education in China : The Focus on the Questionnaire for Full-time Teachers and Institutions' Interview
Lin ZHANG
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2013 Volume 43 Issue 2 Pages 13-20

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This paper aims to clarify the experience and quality of teaching staff, and the functional differentiation of teacher organization in higher vocational education in china. This paper is focused on, questionnaires of full-time teachers in higher vocational education and interviews of institutions. In conclusion, the author analyzes the characteristic of higher vocational education's teaching staff and teacher organization as follows. Firstly, the author finds that dual-qualified teaching staff and general teachers have a different in composition of their ages and their specialties. And not all of dual-qualified teaching staff meet the qualifications that are requested by policy. Secondly, according to teachers' different qualities, there is a division of the functions, and they have a difference in learning experience and occupational experience during their works. Thirdly, according to teachers' different qualities, there is a division of labor on lesson, lecture and practice between dual-qualified teaching staffs, general teachers and part-time teachers in their organization. Dual-qualified teaching staffs can be in charge of lecture and practice. General teachers are mostly in charge of basic and special knowledge. On the other side, part-time teachers are mostly in charge of most-advanced and application.
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