1954 - Now

Personal Data

Zhimin Gao, male, born in 1954 in Shanghai. 

Chinese Communist Party.

East China Normal University professor, doctoral tutor.

One of the leaders of Adult Education professional disciplines in China. 

Education

Professor Gao is a famous adult education expert in China. In the 1980s, he studied in University of Montreal, Canada.

 In 1997, he went to Ecole Normale Superieure (ENS) in France,as a visiting scholar. 

Employment

East China Normal University professor, doctoral tutor.

Director of East China Normal University Research Center for Adult Vocational and adult education institutes.  

Director of the graduate work of the Steering Committee of Vocational Education and Adult Education, East China Normal University.

 Tongji University adjunct professor. 

Awards and Honors

the Outstanding Achievement Award National Education Science; 

 the Top Ten Youth Teachers of East China Normal University ; 

the Outstanding Young Teachers in Colleges and Universities in Shanghai; 

the National Adult Education Excellent Educators and other awards.

Membership-Professional Organizations

Member of National Adult Education Science Planning Leading Group. 

Executive director of China Adult Education Association.

Director of National Working Committee for scientific research institutions adult education. 

Part-time researcher at the Shanghai Academy of Educational Sciences.

China Adult Education Association executive director.

Ministry of Education, National Education Science Planning Leading Group members of the Adult Education Research Group.

Co-president of the National Committee of Chinese scientific research institutions of Adult Education Adult Education Association.

Publications

Professional Interest Areas

1. Basic Theory of Adult Education

2. Psychology and Learning of Adults

3. Philosophical Foundation of Adult Education

4. The Training to the Trainer

5. Sociology of Adult Education

6. Lifelong Education‚ Lifelong Learning and Learning Society

7. Aging Society and Aged Education

8. Theory and Approach of Adult Learning

9. Workplace Learning

10. Learning Community

11. International Comparative  Adult Education

Major Contributions to Adult Education

"Harmonious society and education of the elderly," executive editor, Shanghai Education Press, June 2007.

"Adult Education Sociology", the first author, Hebei Education Press, July 2006.

"Lifelong Education, Lifelong Learning and Learning Society", the first author, East China Normal University Press, 2005.

"(Adult) View on the concept of happiness and Labor", co-authored with French scholars, ENS, 1998

"Adult Educational Psychology", editor, Shanghai Science and Technology Education Press, 1997

"Contemporary World Education and Scientific Development of Adult Education", independently, Shanghai Jiaotong University Press, 1997

"China Research Training System jobs - Overseas Vocational Training System Comparative Study", editor, China Personnel Press, 1995

"China's high school education mode," with co-author, and so Jiang Ming, Higher Education Press, 1993

"Comparative study abroad high school education and Taiwan Province of China", editor, labor, 1992

"Philosophical Foundation of Adult Education" (translation), independently, employee education Press, 1990

"Adult Education", co-authored with Shi Road, Heilongjiang Education Press, 1989

"Adult Learning Methodology", co-authored with Don Maria and other rural readings Press, 1989

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References

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