Author(s)

Yinan Wang ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ School of Cultural Tourism & Health and Wellness, Liaoning University of International Business and Economics, Dalian, 116000, Liaoning, China

Corresponding Author

Yinan Wang

ABSTRACT

Industrial cultural heritage stands as a historical testament to the process of industrialization, embodying a wealth of technical knowledge, craft wisdom, and spiritual connotations, thereby holding distinctive educational value. As a nationally significant old industrial base, Liaoning Province possesses an extensive, diverse, and broadly distributed array of industrial heritage resources, offering invaluable materials for university education. On the basis of reviewing the general profile and characteristics of Liaoning's industrial cultural heritage, this paper analyzes its educational values across three dimensions: knowledge transmission, competency development, and value cultivation. It further examines current practices and existing challenges in utilizing such heritage for educational purposes within Liaoning's higher education institutions. The study reveals that the integration faces practical obstacles, including insufficient educational transformation of heritage resources, overly simplistic curriculum incorporation, underdeveloped practical teaching systems, and inadequate faculty and support conditions. In response, this paper proposes systematic advancement strategies from four dimensions: curriculum integration, practical platform construction, digital technology empowerment, and collaborative mechanism development. These proposals aim to provide theoretical references and practical pathways for effectively converting industrial cultural heritage into educational resources for higher education.

KEYWORDS

Industrial cultural heritage; Liaoning; higher education; Educational transformation

CITE THIS PAPER

Yinan Wang. Research on the Pathways for Integrating Liaoning's Industrial Cultural Heritage into the Higher Education System. Adult and Higher Education (2026). Vol. 8, No. 2, 79-86. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/aduhe.2026.080210.

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