From Faculty and Staff Needs to Institutional Commitment: A Trade Union Pathway for Ideological and Political Education: A Practice-Oriented Framework for Jiangsu University
This article starts from a practical contradiction in university trade union work: faculty and staff expect services that answer concrete problems, whereas ideological and political education (IPE) is often organized as a separate activity. Taking the Jiangsu University trade union research proposal as its institutional setting, the study asks how one service encounter might also become a credible educational encounter without turning welfare into a reward for expressed attitudes. Relevant work on trade union innovation is read alongside research on organizational support, procedural justice, commitment, and engagement. The resulting argument is that practical assistance matters educationally only when recognition, fair procedure, contextual interpretation, and opportunities for voluntary action are joined in the same process. The article converts this argument into a needs-service-education loop: listen at three speeds, interpret needs through four local lenses, design a service-value pair, provide services at three levels, and return evidence to the next planning cycle. The proposed design draws on the university’s network of 39 secondary trade unions and 25 faculty cultural and sports associations. It also identifies ethical limits concerning data minimization, equal access, and personnel evaluation. No completed survey result or causal effect is claimed; the framework instead defines what a later pilot should test and what evidence would be insufficient.
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