China’s Participation in Global Vocational Education Governance: Status Quo, Outcomes, and Challenges
摘要
This chapter concentrates on China’s participation in global vocational education governance. With the rapid development of globalization, countries in the world are increasingly interconnected and interdependent. In the face of increasingly prominent global problems such as ecological imbalance, environmental pollution, resource shortage, international terrorism and transnational crimes, no country can cope with and solve them alone. Therefore, countries around the world are increasingly calling for strengthening and improving global governance. As an important field involved in global governance, education is also facing severe challenges such as instability and increasing uncertainties in the development of education internationalization with the deepening of globalization. More importantly, the competition among countries in today’s world is ultimately the competition between education and talents, and countries attach great importance to education development and talent training, so global education governance has gradually become the focus of discussion among countries. In 2006, Canadian scholars John Cotton and Laura Sunderland formally put forward the term “global education governance” for the first time in the G8 Summit report “G8 and Global Education Governance” in St. Petersburg. After that, several scholars conducted research on the connotation of “global education governance” from the perspective of theory and practice. The representative view of the theoretical perspective is to take “global education governance” as an organizational framework. For example, British scholars Kenneth King and Robert Palmer believe that “Global education governance” is “an organizational framework used to discuss how state and non-state actors gain political authority and influence in education”. However, the connotation of “global education governance” from a theoretical perspective is too general, so most scholars tend to interpret the connotation of “global education governance” from a practical perspective. The global education governance is “an innovative management model formed in the context of globalization and democratization.” It is a process of “co-governance” of general education and educational public affairs.