Under the background of new era, new national conditions and new pattern, traditional liberal arts have embarked on the reform road of building New Liberal Arts under the impetus of the tide of change in educational theory and practice. The state has put forward the concept of New Liberal Arts in the "Six Excellence and One Pioneer" program version 2.0, and set up a basic framework for the construction of New Liberal Arts, which provides a policy impetus for the innovation of liberal arts education in China. Based on the review and sorting out of related literature and the deconstruction of the "four pillars and eight pillars" of China's top-level design for the construction of the New Liberal Arts, we elucidate the power mechanism of the national construction of the New Liberal Arts and the reform of the liberal arts, i.e. the power of integration and development led by the optimization of majors, the power of independent reform led by the improvement of curriculum, and the power of innovation and practice led by the innovation of models. On this basis, a cluster analysis of the practices of colleges and universities since the construction of New Liberal Arts reveals that the construction of New Liberal Arts in colleges and universities across the country has formed a New Liberal Arts construction boom with "a hundred flowers competing for color" and obvious effectiveness, and the explosive force of grassroots construction is strong. However, some colleges and universities are constrained by traditional education concepts and institutional mechanisms, and the progress of New Liberal Arts construction is slow. For this reason, it is necessary to conduct in-depth research on the theory of New Liberal Arts and the logic of innovation to help the national layout of New Liberal Arts construction take effect and realize the goal of "building a strong educational, scientific and technological, human resources, and cultural power" proposed by the 20th Party Congress at an early date.

Xiuxiang Li, Yanhan Hu. Research on Top-Level Drivers and Grassroots Practices in the Construction of New Liberal Arts in China. Frontiers in Educational Research (2024) Vol. 7, Issue 11: 156-163. https://doi.org/10.25236/FER.2024.071125.

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