Journal of East China Normal University(Educationa ›› 2025, Vol. 43 ›› Issue (11): 1-12.doi: 10.16382/j.cnki.1000-5560.2025.11.001

   

Community of Industry and Education: Towards the Institutionalized Construction of Relations Between School and Enterprise

Guoqing Xu   

  1. Institute of Vocational and Adult Education, East China Normal University; The National Research Institute for Teaching Materials of TVET, Shanghai 200062, China
  • Accepted:2025-07-27 Online:2025-11-01 Published:2025-11-03

Abstract:

The “Outline of the Plan for Building a Strong Education Country (2024-2035)” requires “shaping a new form of multi party participation in education and integration of industry and education”. Establishing a community is the main strategy for promoting the integration of industry and education in vocational education, with the aim of institutionalizing cooperation between school and enterprise, and providing institutional guarantees for the construction of a structured practical learning system. This is an inherent logical requirement for the further development of cooperation between school and enterprise in China. The institutionalization of cooperation between school and enterprise is the process of mutual integration of school and enterprise. To promote the integration, it is necessary to stimulate the enthusiasm of enterprises to participate in cooperation between school and enterprise, and more importantly, to build an external driving mechanism. The community of industry and education is an external driving mechanism for the institutionalization of relations of school and enterprise. It is a social organization that operates in a tangible manner. The operational strategies include the government fully stimulating the enthusiasm of enterprises to participate in cooperation between school and enterprise, community management institutions actively promoting the institutionalization of cooperation between school and enterprise, vocational schools actively promoting the development of functions of training in enterprise, and enterprises actively promoting the internalization of training processes. Building a structured practical learning system requires the development of a progressive skills training system, as well as strengthening the construction of vocational qualification and enterprise master certification.

Key words: community of industry and education, cooperation between school and enterprise, institution