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    01 January 2024, Volume 42 Issue 1 Previous Issue    Next Issue
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    Theoretical Foundations and Practical Strategies of Developing Creative Talent
    David Yun Dai
    2024, 42 (1):  1-23.  doi: 10.16382/j.cnki.1000-5560.2024.01.001
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    The nurturing of creative talent is a significant and urgent matter. However, what constitutes creative talent, and how to identify and educate them-these issues still await good theoretical answers and practical guidance. This article is intended to address human creative potential in terms of how it develops and leads to creative accomplishments, and how educational and social interventions can be designed accordingly to identify, nurture, and culturally support the development of creative productivity. For the nature of creative talent, the article identifies five types of innovations and three types of creative talent. For identification, it is proposed that identification should be more dynamic and developmentally responsive. For nurturing creativity, a three-phase developmental and domain-specific approach is proposed. For cultural support, several issues are brought up as to what constitutes a creativity-friendly culture. Finally, the article proposes a set of five strategic considerations for implementing such a practical agenda, and for guiding policy, the article suggests four principles to follow, as well as precaution for conceptual traps that might hinder this line of work.

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    Expectation and Reality: An Analysis of Pay Level and Pay Mix of University Staff in China
    Yongmei Hu, Ping Zhao, Jing Yuan
    2024, 42 (1):  24-40.  doi: 10.16382/j.cnki.1000-5560.2024.01.002
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    In order to find out the problems and then provide empirical basis for the reform of pay system of Chinese university staff, the current study analyzes the actual and expected pay level and pay mix of Chinese university staff by using administrative data and large-scale micro survey data, and draws the following conclusions. The pay level of Chinese university staffs is relatively competitive in China, but it is not internationally competitive enough. The annual pay and its components of most staff are lower than the average, and the pay expectation of the vast majority of staffs is higher than the actual pay. The proportion of the base pay of university staff in the monthly pay is low, and it is lower than their expectation. The proportion of faculties in the “Double First-Class” universities and staff in the eastern regions expecting salary increases is significantly higher than that of other staff. Based on the above research findings, the study proposes three suggestions on raising pay level and optimizing pay mix to facilitate the reform of pay system of Chinese university faculty.

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    The Status, Problems and Solutions of the Base Salary System for Faculty in Chinese Universities: From the Perspectives of Security and Incentive Function
    Ping Zhao, Yongmei Hu
    2024, 42 (1):  41-57.  doi: 10.16382/j.cnki.1000-5560.2024.01.003
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    Promoting the reform of university faculty’ salary system is an important means to improve the qualifications of university faculties. The base salary system should be brought into theoretical discussion and practical reform because of its dual functions of security and incentive for university faculty. Based on relevant policies, administrative data and universities faculty’ salaries survey data, this study analyzes the implementation of the university faculty’ base salary system in China. We find that the base salary system has some problems, such as centralized management, inconsistency between basic salary level and local economic development level, low starting point, low proportion of base salary, inconsistency between the design of salary grade and the law of salary management, and failure of salary adjustment to achieve policy expectations, which inhibits security and incentive effect of base salary. In view of the above problems, combined with the salary management theory, the following policy implications are proposed. Firstly, the human resources and social security departments of central government should establish a unified national base salary system for university faculty, and the provincial government should formulate an overall base salary scale. Secondly, the minimum of base salary of university faculty and the base salary of faculties in developed provinces should be raised moderately to ensure their actual purchasing power. Thirdly, simplify the elements of university faculty’ salary and gradually increase the proportion of base salary. Fourthly, improve the grade difference of the base salary at each post level, and adjust the floating range of the base salary to enhance the medium and long-term incentive effect on faculties. Finally, the adjustment of base salary scale should take into account its proportion in total salary and its grade, and ensure that the increase of base salary and the proportion of base salary in total salary are reasonable.

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    The Design of Seniority Wage System for Faculty: An Analysis Based on Faculty’ Salaries Survey in Some Chinese Universities
    Jing Yuan, Ping Zhao, Yongmei Hu
    2024, 42 (1):  58-70.  doi: 10.16382/j.cnki.1000-5560.2024.01.004
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    Based on the survey data of faculty in Chinese universities, this paper draws the findings that the grade wage, increasing with faculty’s experience, has a limited function of retaining faculty, while the seniority allowance or seniority wage system set up by colleges and universities can effectively reduce the probability of faculty leaving the current position. According to the seniority wage dispersion model, the starting levels of seniority wages are estimated for lecturers, associate professors, and professors, respectively. And this paper further designs the seniority wage growth mechanism of each professional referring to the increase mechanism of the grade wage. In this study, we propose establishing the seniority wage system to serve as a beneficial supplement to the grade wage system to enhance the retention function of faculty’s compensation.

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    What is Artificial Intelligence (AI) Competency: Essence, Composition and Evaluation Systems
    Baichang Zhong, Xiaofan Liu, Minghuan Yang
    2024, 42 (1):  71-84.  doi: 10.16382/j.cnki.1000-5560.2024.01.005
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    The ChatGPT has both positive and negative effects on education. The field of education should consider not only how to empower students to meet the challenges posed by AI, but also how to develop students’ competency to adapt to AI. In this paper, we refer to this competency as AI competency, i.e., the core competency of students with both domain specificity and domain generality cultivated through AI education. AI competency is a new competency arising from the development of AI technology. Technology ontology, philosophical epistemology and educational psychology are interconnected to understand the essence and composition of AI competency. From the perspective of technology ontology, this paper analyzes the essence of AI competency-the technicalization of human beings. From the perspective of philosophical epistemology and educational psychology, this paper analyzes the composition of AI competency. Key competency development is essentially a dynamic transformation process of “knowledge and thinking”. Affectivity, as a knowledge-derived emotional experience, not only nourishes the process of knowledge construction and thinking development, but also serves as the foundation and source for acquiring moral conceptions. Thus, the interplay of knowledge, affectivity and thinking underpins the logic of students’ AI competency. In this vein, this paper constructs an evaluation system of AI competency based on three dimensions: AI knowledge, AI affectivity, and AI thinking.

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    Aesthetic Anthropology Pointing to the Human Formation: Herbart’s Educational Theory from the Perspective of His Aesthetic Thought
    Tao Peng
    2024, 42 (1):  85-98.  doi: 10.16382/j.cnki.1000-5560.2024.01.006
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    Herbart’s aesthetics has not got due attention and elucidation in the field of aesthetics and pedagogy. This study aims to posit that Herbart constructed a vision of aesthetic anthropology, including multiple theories concerning ethics, pedagogy, and art. In this kind of aesthetic anthropology, aesthetic principles with the core feature of aesthetic judgment run through almost each aspect of the human practice, highlighting “interest in ethics” in particular. Building the basic principles of ethics on aesthetics, Herbart proposed the mechanism of incorporating aesthetics and ethics, and oriented it to the human formation (Bildung). Only along the way of aesthetics could the education act aiming at human formation promote forming moral character. Instruction and discipline are educational because of this. From such a view of aesthetic anthropology to identify Herbart’s pedagogy, the contemporary meaning of his educational thought could be fully demonstrated.

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    The Iterative Development of Primary and Secondary Education Quality Monitoring in Zhejiang Province: From Physical Examination to Practical Guidance
    Rongrong Chen, Feng Zhang
    2024, 42 (1):  99-113.  doi: 10.16382/j.cnki.1000-5560.2024.01.007
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    This paper reports the iterative development of education quality monitoring in Zhejiang Province from “professional support” to “independent monitoring”, reflecting the value orientation of education quality monitoring in Zhejiang Province from “physical examination” to “practical guidance”. The paper introduces the systematic design of Zhejiang education quality monitoring indicator system from two aspects: the evaluation indicator framework of student development and growth environment, also the design basis of basic indicators and independent observation points. On this basis, this paper introduces the innovative ideas in thematic analysis from four aspects: combination analysis, model construction, thematic analysis and international comparison. Finally, the paper expounds the conclusions, findings and relevant practical guidance from six aspects: revealing students’ growth mechanism, focusing on learning quality and influencing mechanism, penetrating the essence of academic burden, promoting the transformation of school teaching management, and improving the family “soft environment”. All the above reflect the practical perspective ability, grass-roots development position and practical guidance orientation of Zhejiang education quality monitoring.

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    Algorithmic Power and Its Regulation in the Digital Transformation of Education
    Xin Yang
    2024, 42 (1):  114-126.  doi: 10.16382/j.cnki.1000-5560.2024.01.008
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    The brand-new algorithm relying on the advantages of framework, machine and embedding will change from a simple computing tool to a transaction operation rule with the construction of a digital platform, the mining of data resources and the design of human-machine interaction, and then evolve into an unavoidable power issue in the digital transformation of education. Dialectically speaking, the algorithmic power in the digital transformation of education is not only beneficial to managing risks, standardizing behaviors and assisting decision-making; It may also lead to the risk alienation, behavior degradation and decision-making imbalance of education due to its own limitations and the conflict between it and education. In order to regulate algorithm power into a safe and reliable “cage”, in addition to relying on the educational review of algorithm objectives, the educational interpretation of algorithm design, the educational supervision of algorithm operation, the educational identification of algorithm application, the educational filing of algorithm information, and the educational recognition of algorithm responsibility, we should build a normative mechanism from background, process to result. We should also appeal to the disenchantment, balance and sublation of education in algorithm, so as to highlight the balance thought of “inside but out”.

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