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Reconstructing the Project Management Mechanism and Exploring Practical Pathways for Educational and Teaching Reform of Arts Majors under the Double First-Class Initiative

Author(s)

Fang Wang, Leiming Li, Yongjun Xue*, Xinhao Wu

Affiliation(s)

College of Arts, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China *Corresponding Author

Abstract

Under the Double First-Class Initiative, the management of educational and teaching reform projects for arts majors must transcend traditional modes and actively align with the requirements of connotative development in contemporary higher education. This demands a shift from experience driven approaches to data driven approaches and from outcome orientation to orientation toward effectiveness. Such a transformation is not only an inevitable response to increasing disciplinary integration, it is also a crucial route to resolving practical problems in project management for arts majors, including fragmented resource allocation, weak process supervision, and low rates of results conversion. Drawing on systems science theory and the perspective of the innovation ecosystem, and taking full account of the disciplinary characteristics of arts majors which emphasize creative thinking and practical competence as well as the Double First-Class Initiative’s call for discipline specialization and precision in talent cultivation, this paper proposes an innovative reform pathway centered on a three-dimensional management model of goals, processes, and effectiveness. Driven by the Double First-Class Initiative, this approach aims to raise the scientific and informatized level of project management for educational and teaching reform in arts majors, thereby achieving high quality in project implementation and a high standard of management, and ultimately promoting improvement in the quality of talent cultivation.

Keywords

Double First-Class Initiative; Arts Majors; Project Management; Dynamic Collaborative Governance; Intelligentization

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