The Underlying Logic,Practical Misunderstandings,and Future Directions of Integration of Vocational and General Education in the Context of Chinese Modernization
It is an inevitable trend for the relationship between vocational and general education to move towards integration under the background of Chinese modernization.The three underlying logic for implementing the intergration of vocational and general education in our country are the demand for students'full and comprehensive development,the call for fair and quality education,and the inherent need to highlight the typological characteristics of vocational education.In the practical process,China's integration of vocational and general education has fallen into the misunderstanding of de-professionalization,characterized by expanding one type of education while weakening the other,a lack of multi-level integration,and unidirectional instead of bidirectional integration within the same level.The future direction of the integration of vocational and general education is to place vocational education and general education within the same educational system.Guided by the principles of harmony in difference,there should be systematic construction from the compulsory education stage to the senior high school stage,and then to the higher education stage gradually realizing effective integration between the two types of education.
Chinese modernizationintegration of vocational and general educationmodem vocational education system