The Interdisciplinary in the Knowledge Construction of Higher Education Studies:Professor WANG Yingjie's View on Universities
Professor Wang Yingjie is a renowned scholar in the field of Comparative Education,but he also has a wide and significant influence in the field of higher education research.Based on the investigation of the development of American higher education,especially research universities,he has conducted a long-term systematic and in-depth exploration of university ideas from a comparative perspective.Through detailed analysis of cases such as Harvard University,Yale University,and Stanford University,he has meticulously depicted the individual and common characteristics of such world-class universities.In his view,academic sanctity is the highest belief of research universities and constitutes the core values of talent cultivation,scientific research,social service,and academic governance,with internationalism,openness,criticalness,and inclusiveness being the specific value connotations.Academic autonomy and academic freedom are the institutional foundations to safeguard academic sanctity,and the enlightened leadership of university presidents as ethical leaders and moral models,the shared governance structure that reflects academic democracy,and the construction of academic communities advocating teacher-student interaction and interdisciplinary cross-over,are the organizational and institutional guarantees of research universities.In response to the impetuous phenomenon in China's process of establishing world-class universities,he proposes that stability is the strength of universities,and the operation of universities needs to follow the common rules of world-class universities,handling the relationship between"unchanging"and"change".Stability or"unchanging"is"upholding righteousness",while development or"change"is innovation based on it,thus forming the individuality and characteristics of each university through independent exploration without forgetting the basic premise.While clarifying professor WANG Yingjie's academic views on university ideas,also such a key figure outside the discipline was taken as a sample to analyze the intellectual exchange and interaction relationship between his academic concerns and relevant issues in the discipline of higher education,thus revealing the mutual disciplinary and disciplinary intersection characteristics between the discipline of higher education and Comparative Education as well as other disciplines.
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