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26 July 2026

Research on the Practical Path of Higher Vocational Colleges Serving Community Education under the Background of Home-School-Community Collaboration

Zhang Gao1*
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1 Sichuan Vocational and Technical College, Suining 629000, Sichuan, China
EIR 2026 , 4(7), 177–184; https://doi.org/10.26689/EIR.v4i7.16070
© 2026 by the Author. Licensee: Bio-Byword Scientific Publishing Pty Ltd, Australia. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ )
Abstract

Based on the theoretical framework of collaborative education among families, schools, and communities, this report combines the actual development of community education in Sichuan Province and the practical foundation of six established community colleges in Suining City, where the research team is located (Sichuan Vocational and Technical College). It systematically analyzes the current situation and challenges of higher vocational colleges serving community education, extracts typical case experiences of collaborative community colleges built by families, schools, and communities, and then constructs a four-dimensional collaborative mechanism of “organizational management - resource integration - communication and coordination - supervision and evaluation”. Furthermore, it designs practical paths from four aspects: course supply, teacher allocation, activity organization, and platform construction. The study finds that as an institutionalized carrier of collaborative education among families, schools, and communities, the key to the effectiveness of community colleges lies in embedding the professional resources of higher vocational colleges into the community education demand chain, while ensuring the stability of collaboration through clear boundaries of rights and responsibilities and sustainable incentive and restraint mechanisms. Finally, the report proposes countermeasures and suggestions for constructing a quality assessment system and promoting the model.

Keywords
Home-school-community collaboration
Higher vocational colleges
Community education
Community college
Practical path
Funding
Project No.: SCJG24B039
References

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