Research and Enlightenment of American Community College Curriculum System

Liu Yu

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Research and Enlightenment of American Community College Curriculum System

Liu Yu

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Received: 11 March 2021 Accepted: 22 March 2021 Published: 30 March 2021

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The relatively perfect curriculum system of American community colleges has laid a solid foundation for the technical talents and the smooth connection of general vocational integration. It has also trained a large number of highly skilled technical personnel for various communities in the United States. In order to promote the construction of an integrated curriculum system of vocational education in China, based on the analysis of the logic structure of the curriculum system of American community colleges, this paper summarizes the three characteristics of the system, which are "unity of freedom and flexibility, compatibility of academic and professional, and combination of cohesion and development". Analyze the dilemma of "loose architecture," "out of focus" and "low relevance of vocational and technical courses". Based on this, from the perspective of innovation and development, this paper explores the three trends of American community college curriculum system “adjust and update the course content; enhancing the effectiveness of developmental education programs; establish a unified certificate system and curriculum system” and some enlightenment of “pay attention to the effective connection of the curriculum system; strengthen the development of education and training courses; pay attention to the evaluation of course teaching quality;” for the construction of vocational education curriculum system in China.

Published in	Teacher Education and Curriculum Studies (Volume 6, Issue 1)
DOI	10.11648/j.tecs.20210601.17
Page(s)	33-40
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United States, Community College Curriculum System, Characteristic, Trouble

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Research Institute of Higher Education, Guangdong Communication Polytechnic, Guangzhou, China

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