The Formation Mechanism and Inheritance Pathways of Jiujiang's Integrity Culture from the Perspective of Industry-Education Integration

Abstract

Integrity culture constitutes a vital resource for higher education institutions in fulfilling the fundamental mission of fostering virtue through education in the new era. As a nationally renowned historical and cultural city, Jiujiang has nurtured a distinctive local integrity culture tradition represented by a community of honest officials including Tao Kan, Di Renjie, and Huang Tingjian, which embodies rich ideological connotations and distinctive regional characteristics. However, current integrity culture development in Jiujiang's higher education institutions commonly faces challenges including insufficient exploration of historical resources, homogenised educational formats, and inadequate integration with professional education. From the perspective of industry-education integration, this paper systematically reviews the historical lineage and spiritual connotations of Jiujiang's integrity culture, deduces its formation mechanism characterised by the four-dimensional interaction of 'geographical environment–political ecology–cultural tradition–educational practice', analyses the impact mechanism of industry-education integration on integrity culture inheritance, and proposes a four-dimensional synergistic inheritance pathway encompassing 'curriculum infiltration–practical cultivation–environmental immersion–institutional safeguards'. The study contends that industry-education integration is not merely a transformation of talent cultivation models but also provides a practical field for the transformation of integrity culture from knowledge transmission to value identification, with the two capable of forming a mutually empowering and synergistically enhancing benign interactive relationship.