Abstract:

The profound transformation of modern universities led by general education in return makes its development in a constant state of new challenges. Therefore, general education not only needs the guidance of advanced ideas, but also requires regular evaluation and adjustment. The emergence of contemporary Chinese general education in 2015 has evolved into a stage where new problems should be realized and solved. Due to the fact that it is not spontaneously formed locally, tracing back its origin becomes necessary when we hope to accurately evaluate contemporary Chinese general education to fit the inevitable changes of time and society. Three background contexts are to be mentioned: the urgent demand for innovative talents during the transformation of China’s economic growth model, the innovation on knowledge production and education mode in the era of knowledge economy and artificial intelligence, and the humanistic reflection on modernization. At present, the main problems and requirements are as follows: it is necessary to identify the specific objectives of general education with the efforts to separate it from various types of well-used educational patterns, to reasonably adapt the popular method of classic reading while properly approaching the idea of cultural conservatism within it, and to distinguish general education from academic education in order to avoid the rigid requirement of class hour in undergraduate study and the excess amounts of compulsory courses set without clear learning goals in major study. Most importantly in the long run is to build a regular evaluation-adjustment mechanism to promote the interaction between educational theory and social practice.

Key words: evaluation-adjustment mechanism of Chinese general education, background of Chinese general education, current situation of Chinese general education