A Study on the Impact of China's Educational Modernization Practices on the Development of Vocational Education in Southeast Asia under the “Belt and Road” Background

Abstract

In the process of global educational modernization, the systematic accumulation of technological elements and their cross-system mobility have become important variables affecting the development of regional vocational education. The core technological modules, standard encapsulation mechanisms, and industry-education integration organizational models formed during China's educational modernization possess the potential to spill over into the vocational education systems of Southeast Asia. This study focuses on the transferable characteristics of three types of technological elements and their embedding pathways, analyzing the cross-regional calibration logic of the vocational qualification framework, the parametric redesign method of the dual-system teaching operation structure, and the construction method of knowledge transfer carriers and ability mapping relationships in teacher professional development. On this basis, the study explores the evolutionary trends of Southeast Asian vocational education systems after absorbing the above elements, including the distributed adjustment of educational governance rights and responsibilities allocation, the flexible reconstruction of modular curriculum systems, and the emergence of self-organizing characteristics in quality assurance mechanisms. The research suggests that the embedding of elements related to China's educational modernization is not a simple model transplantation; rather, through operations such as calibration, translation, and redesign, it forms an adaptive reorganization with local conditions in Southeast Asia, thereby promoting structural evolution in the regional vocational education systems at the levels of governance structure, curriculum organization, and quality assurance.