Strategies for Higher Education Teachers’ Career Development Planning under the Lifelong Learning Paradigm

Abstract

With the deep integration of digital technology and education, higher education has entered a new stage of high-quality development. The accelerated pace of knowledge renewal has placed higher demands on university teachers, who must adopt lifelong learning as a central principle to respond effectively to new challenges in interdisciplinary teaching, research innovation, and talent cultivation. Traditional models of professional development are increasingly inadequate for addressing these transformations. As a core guiding concept for educational development in the contemporary era, lifelong learning establishes new requirements and directions for the professional development of higher education teachers. Grounded in the conceptual connotations and contemporary significance of lifelong learning, this study proposes targeted professional development planning strategies from the perspectives of learning system construction, competency expansion, and mechanism improvement. The study aims to promote the continuous enhancement of teachers’ professional capacities, align faculty development with the demands of high-quality higher education, and provide sustainable human resource support for talent cultivation and disciplinary development in universities.