International Journal of Education

Under the backdrop of building a lifelong learning system and establishing a learning society, community education serves as a critical vehicle for lifelong learning for all. The quality of its curriculum directly determines the effectiveness of education. Currently, China's community education curriculum system faces issues such as an incomplete structure, insufficient content supply, and unscientific development methods. However, vocational colleges, leveraging their inherent advantages in expertise, faculty, and resources, play an irreplaceable role in the construction of community education curricula. This paper explores the pathways for vocational colleges to participate in community education curriculum development. It researches and establishes a four-in-one system encompassing "curriculum construction, content supply, promotion and dissemination, and evaluation feedback." The feasibility of this pathway is validated through practical case studies from Nanchong Vocational and Technical College, providing theoretical reference and practical insights for enhancing the quality of community education, strengthening the social service function of vocational colleges, and improving the lifelong learning system.

Vocational colleges; Community education; Curriculum development; Pathway research