Chinese people have a history and tradition of
respecting teachers and attaching importance to education since the very
ancient times.
Teacher education in China only has a history of 100
years
Before 1904: Introduced ideas from abroad
Some ideas and notions about teacher education in other
countries (European countries, U.S. and Japan) had been introduced to China
gradually.
△1904-1921: Learned from Japan
normal schools: primary school
teachers
teacher colleges: secondary
school teachers
△1922-1927: Learned from U.S.
Normal schools and regular
secondary schools were encouraged to merge into comprehensive secondary
schools.
Teacher colleges became
independent universities or faculties and departments of universities.
△1928-1949: Explored in a hard
time and way
Normal schools became
independent again.
There were only 2
institutions for educating secondary school teachers during 1922-1937: Beijing
Normal University, Beijing Women’s Normal University.
△1949-1966:Learned from Russia
◆ There were two
kinds of higher education institutions for teacher education:
·
Most
of normal (education) colleges and normal junior colleges have
upgraded to universities.
Secondary
normal schools were abolished from the
beginning of 21st century and
some of them upgraded to junior colleges or universities
Well it is nice to see that they had tried every possible way to modernize the system but the revolution is what you mine and extract on your own for the good use.
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