In the wave of modern vocational education against the background of"Western Learning Spreading to the East",domestic scholars embarked on a large number of local research paradigms.The sociologist Pan Guangdan's vocational education thinking differs from that of many other scholars.Instead of regarding the differences between Eastern and Western vocational education as a linear evolution process from"tradition"to"modernity",he based his analysis on national forms and social texture to achieve mutual learning and inte-gration between Western vocational education and the cultural tradition of Chinese"craftsmanship".His prop-ositions of combining general and specialized education,combining work and study,and supporting the culture of craftsmanship not only achieved a coherent understanding of local vocational education issues and practices,but also constituted an important ideological resource for current theoretical research on vocational education.
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