A QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS OF COLLEGE STUDENTS’ PROFESSIONAL IDENTITY IN HIGHER VOCATIONAL COLLEGES

Authors: Luo Min*, Li Na, Yan Hanxue & Chen Wei

ABSTRACT

With the upgrading and adjustment of China’s industrial structure, the demand for high-quality skilled personnel is also increasing, and under this situation, higher vocational education in China is undergoing an important educational reform, a large number of new majors appear, and old majors are merged, reorganized or optimization. This series of major adjustments have triggered changes in the professional identity of students in higher vocational colleges, and the professional identity with their majors will greatly affect students’ learning engagement, and thus the formation of their competency levels. Based on the Ground Theory, this study, through interviews with students from different vocational colleges and universities with different majors, repeated comparative analysis, coding by level, and summarization, found five major factors affecting students’ professional identity in higher vocational colleges and universities and put forward suggestions around these factors for higher vocational colleges and universities to improve students’ professional identity level.

Keywords: Higher Vocational Colleges, Influencing Factors, Grounded Theory, Professional Identity,

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