1. Cultivating Objective
This subject cultivates the talents of those who obtain the base of society-culture, the broad vison of educational research and focus on the power and structural change of society, culture and politics, adapting themselves to the interdisciplinary research and the structural development of education.
The target is to require students to use the Marxist philosophy to analyze problems, obtain educational theory, disciplinary quality of humanities and social sciences and academic views, master the research methods of modern social science, be familiar with relative technologies, grasp the international and domestic research of educational culture and society and its development and latest news, form the style of studying down-to-earth, being not afraid of facing hardships. Fluency in a foreign language. Good moral character and sound in body and mind. After graduation, they can perform independent research, education and consultation in a relative field.
2. Cultivating Method and Duration
(1) Cultivating Method
A combination of supervisor guidance and steering group cultivating.
(2) Duration
3 years, no more than 5 years.
3.Research Concentrations
(1) Social Analysis of Education: from the perspective of sociology use the theory and method of sociology to analyze educational problems, including the educational policies, social differences and educational equity, education and social mobility and stratification in macro level; educational organization and efficiency, the social causes of school development in medium level; sociology of curriculum and curriculum analysis in micro level.
(2) Educational culture research: use the theory and method of anthropology, cultural study and narrative analysis to analyze educational research, such as the culture meaning of school building and environment in a physical level; the cultural and social form, the formation of teacher culture and school culture reestablishment in political level; the thought of culture and learners, the presentation of culture and disciplinary knowledge.
(1) Course and Credit
The course of master includes common courses, elementary courses and specialized courses. The common course include the common required courses of political theory and foreign language, and common optional courses of research methods. The elementary courses are required. The specialized courses include major required courses which are established by subject group and major optional courses which indicate research direction.
The curriculum examine can be divided into exam and exploration. The text score of exam uses the hundred-mark system and the explorational performance scores in grades.
The cross-major’s students (the undergraduate subject cross the first level discipline with the master subject can be viewed as cross-majors) and the students of equivalent education level, the supervisors can require them to repeat courses according to their undergraduate courses performance and the requirement of this subject, but the credits can’t replace the required ones.
Credits of this discipline is 31 at least, and the branch program can’t be lower than the following requirement, students can then step into the graduation thesis defense.
The political courses of common curriculum include Research on the theory and practice of socialism with Chinese characteristics (2 credits), Marxism and social science methodology (the graduates of humanities and social science, 1 credit), Dialectics of Nature (the graduates of medicine, science and engineering, 1 credit), foreign language (4 credits), Research ethics and academic norms (independent study, exam on the internet and no credit).
The selective part of common curriculum is the second Foreign Language, Computer Application, Information Retrieval and Research Methods. The graduates can choose one of them (2 credits).
The credits of degree basic courses should be 9 at least, 5 for the professional courses (required), 6 for the he professional courses (selected), 2 for the cross-disciplines or cross-majors (selected).
(2) Curriculum
Curriculum Category | Name | Credit | Time |
Common courses (compulsory) | Theory and Practice of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics | 2 | Semester one |
Marxism and Methodology of Social Science | 1 | Semester one | |
Foreign Language | 4 | Grade one | |
Discipline and Ethics in Academic Research | / | / | |
Optional Course I | 2 | Grade one and two | |
Elementary courses (compulsory) | Foundations of Education | 3 | Semester one |
Qualitative Research Method in Education | 3 | Semester one | |
Quantitative Research Method in Education | 3 | Semester two | |
Selected Readings of Educational culture and society | 3 | Semester two | |
Specialized courses (compulsory) | Educational Narrative Research | 3 | Semester two |
Selected Readings of Education Works | 2 | Semester two | |
International Research of Chinese Education | 2 | Semester two | |
Theories of Educational Sociology | 3 | Semester two | |
Subject Foreign Language | 1 | Semester three | |
Specialized courses (optional) | Educational Image Study | 2 | Semester three |
Philosophy of Education | 2 | Semester three | |
Evaluation Methodology of CMC | 2 | Semester three | |
Anthropology of Education | 2 | Semester three |
*Optional Course I include the second Foreign Language, Computer Application, Information Retrieval and Research Methods. The graduates can choose one of them (2 credits).
5. Research Achievements Requirement
Encourage graduates to publish high quality academic articles, but there is no uniform requirement of academic achievement for graduates during their studies.
6. Assessment
(1) Annual assessment
The first year is the formation of basic academic ability. The graduates should hand in an annual assessment report at the end of the seminar two, about 5000-10000 words. The content can be a reading report, literature review or research report, etc.
(2) mid-term examination
Time: at the end of semester four, the graduate school and management units should take the mid-term examination for graduates according to the exam method of basic reading ability.
Content of examination: Course performance review, teaching and researching ability, social practical ability, thesis proposal and political and ideological education. Be subject to the common inspection of supervisors and instructors. The thesis proposal is subject to the evaluation of demonstration team.
The system of evaluation, selection, correction and elimination: 1) evaluation: graduates who pass the exam can write the dissertation; 2) selection: select the graduates who are excellent in Political and ideological morality, academic achievement and research ability advance to doctoral study or graduate; 3) correction: graduates who can’t pass the evaluation, such as can’t pass the thesis proposal, have poor research ability, fail the curriculum should delay graduation or dissertation; 4) elimination: graduates who have harmful trends in political and moral behavior, poor academic performance and low research ability will be advised to repeat.
7. Dissertation Requirement
(1) Proposal elements. The dissertation proposal should include: 1) explain the reason of topic selection; 2) clearly express the objective and significance; 3) systemically and clearly introduce the process and trends of academic research domestic and overseas; 4) research design; 5) research stage and plan; 6) innovation point and key problems; 7) research content; 8) difficulties, questions and problems of the research; 9) references.
(2) Proposal evaluation and demonstration. Supervisor and 3-5 professors in relevant research field will evaluate and demonstrate the proposal. They will analyze and assess the research value and feasibility. If the proposal has one of the following situations, it should be reformed: 1) non-valued or almost non-valued thesis; 2) simply repeat others’ research and has no innovation or almost has no innovation; 3) research design is rough, exists serious defects or can’t be operated.
(3) Dissertation defense qualification. 1) no illegal or disciplinary record and pass the political examine; 2) meet the requirement of this program 3) no plagiary or infringement; 4) the published article didn’t have serious mistakes or the translation didn’t distort the original meaning; 5) dissertation passes the peer review.
(4) Dissertation requirement. 1) the topic has theoretical and practical significance; 2) research theme is clear and specific, possessing consciousness of problems; 3) be familiar with the relevant academic background, master the research frontier trends and understand the problems solved by previous researchers and the problems left; 4) having a strict logic and structure and being able to discuss the problem completely and systematically; 5) the dissertation can reflect that doctorial students and masters the solid and expanded basic theory and systematic professional knowledge; 6) the dissertation has innovative research results.
(5) Academic standard. 1) respect others outcomes and be serious to the documents; 2) finish the dissertation independently with the guidance of supervisor; 3) express the research outcomes practically and realistically; 4) language should be refining and the key words should be appropriate; 5) abstract should conform to the text and protrudes new opinions and innovative outcomes; 6) language should conform to modern standard Chinese without ill-formed sentences; 7) wrongly written characters, wrong punctuation and spelling mistakes should be controlled under five over ten thousand (calculated according to the length).
(6) Pre-defense. Doctoral students who want to apply for dissertation defense should pass the pre-defense which is organized by the institution and department. They will organize supervisor and relevant professors to listen to the appliers’ dissertation process, give advice and determine whether the appliers can attend the defense in time.
