Time Poverty in Self-Exploration:College Students'Time Allocation and the Mechanism for Its Structural Constraints
The time for self-exploration is an important index to forecast college students'academic success and future career development.Promoting independent extra-curricular learning and participation in extra-curricular activities becomes the core goal for the reform of optimizing the mechanism for talent cultivation in higher education institutions,and the key approach to improving college students'academic achievements,comprehensive competences,and moral cognition.Based on the clock time order,the time allocated for college students is the social time constrained by internal and external factors such as socioeconomic structures,institutional organization,and individuals'experience,and it is a comprehensive product resulting from past experiences,the current field of higher education institutions,and future expectations.This study,based on the data from the Panel Study of Chinese University Students(PSCUS)between 2018 and 2021,explores Chinese college students'daily learning and living conditions,and the restrictions behind their self-exploration.The research results show the following:The Chinese college students faced a severe crisis of time poverty in their self-exploration,and their online and offline leisure time tended to increase significantly;their previous learning habits at senior high schools,the current requirements for credits needed for their college graduation,the current classroom teaching methods,and their risk expectations for the future macro economy,employment and economic loads imposed structural constraints on their time for self-exploration.Therefore,we need to reduce the academic burden for senior high school students,improve the teaching management system in higher education institutions,build a systematic academic support system,and strengthen college students'psychological resilience against future uncertainties so as to provide solid support for the cultivation of innovative talents.
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