Transforming Practice into Wisdom——The Forming of Liu Xianjun's Thoughts on Discipline Construction
At the end of the 20th century,China's higher education simultaneously launched the scale expansion and construction of world-class universities,during which a number of key science and engineering universities met the challenges by constructing com-prehensive universities.From 1996 to 2005,Liu Xianjun was in charge of discipline construc-tion in Huazhong University of Science and Technology.As a practitioner and researcher,he carried out a series of research on the issue of discipline construction.For the research pur-pose of"practice as the starting point and the goal",he communicates practice and theory with practical wisdom.He puts forward some theories full of practical wisdom,such as the theory of discipline construction elements,the theory of discipline construction stages,the theory of discipline construction subject-content and the theory of discipline construction fu-sion and growth.Those have provided profound enlightenment for enriching the research paradigm of higher education.
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