The first "Academic Brainstorming Forum" was hosted on July 23, 2020. Speakers exchanged opinions with participating researchers on frontier academic outcomes in their respective research areas. The forum was organized by the Department of Research Administration. More than 70 staff members, post-doc researchers and visiting scholars attended this meeting.
Peng Niya, research assistant from the Research Center for Educational Development and Reform, presented a paper entitled "How does education play a role in anti-poverty?" showing how education facilitates economic growth. As a result of the increase of income for population in poverty, education could be employed as an anti-poverty strategy.
Li Jianmin, associate researcher from the Research Center for Basic Education, presented a paper entitled "How would the development of high school education be in the post-popularization era" in which she elaborated on the definition, value selection, current situation, methods of reform, and evaluation of high school education in the post-popularization era. As she puts it, high school education should give first priority to the principle of being student-centered and being non-utilitarian, and achieve connotative development through reform of cultivation.
Weng Qiuyi, research assistant from the Research Center for Higher Education, presented a paper entitled "Will entrepreneurship lead to higher returns to education?" and analyzed the rate of returns to education and people from different educational backgrounds with different levels of income via qualitative and quantitative research methods.
Yang Yingdong, research assistant from the Research Center for Curriculum and Pedagogy, presented a paper entitled "The direction and method of curriculum reform in the new era" and suggesting that curriculum reform in the new era could be considered as model revolution. The process of establishing a new paradigm instead of the old one indicates that the classroom, school and community could be regarded as small, medium and large classes.
Liu Yujuan, associate researcher from the Research Center for Moral Education, Psychology and Special Education, presented a paper entitled "National identity education for adolescents" analysing the characteristics, formation mechanism, and influence factors of national identity education for adolescents from a psychological perspective, and suggests that it aligns with the stability of national development.
Wang Xiaoning, associate researcher from the Research Center for International Comparative Education, presented a paper entitled the “Chinese experience of suspending classes without stopping learning in 2020”and analyzed sampled data collected from 31 provinces, sharing experience for the rest of the world to draw on.
