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of Education Science |
¡¡¡¡School of Education Science of Shanxi University (SESU), formerly
known as the Education Department, was founded in 1929. According
to the historical records from ¡°The National Shanxi University¡±,
the Education Department was from Shanxi Provincial College of Education
that was incorporated into Shanxi University in July 1934, and the
College of Education maintained its name in accordance with the
executive instruction of the then Ministry of Education. In 1936
it became a part of the College of Liberal Arts of the university.
During the World War II, the department of education moved to Shan
Yuan and Qiu Lin in Shaanxi Province along with the university,
and then moved to Peking. The college moved back to Taiyuan in April
1949. In 1950s and during the years of the so-called Culture Revolution,
the department experienced the now-and-then suspension and dissipation.
After the department was reorganized in 1980 it has undergone rapid
development for the past 20 years. Since then, 2000 undergraduate
students and 40 graduate students for master¡¯s degree have graduated.
The great contributions have been made to social and economic development
of Shanxi Province. In 1999 the department was renamed as the School
of Education.
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¡¡¡¡At
present, the school has three departments, the Department of Education,
the Department of Psychology, and the Department of Pre-school Education.
The school offers four master¡¯s study programs in educational psychology,
the higher education, the principal of education program, and the
applied psychology. The four undergraduate study programs are school
education, education administration, applied psychology, pre-school
education and pedagogy. The school of education is characterized
by its integration of graduate study, undergraduate study and three-year
college education programs in the fields of both pedagogy and psychology.
The school of education integrates teaching, research and social
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service.
The school is administrated under a series of rules and regulations
for teaching, research, and students. The teaching quality is always
the top priority and the instruction practices emphasize on student¡¯s
ability and skill development. The innovated teaching experiments
are encouraged.
¡¡¡¡There
are 32 faculty members in the department, including 3 full professors,
13 associate professors 9 lecturers and 7 teaching assistants.
Four faculty members are with doctoral degrees and 23 with master
degrees. Also 3 junior faculty are studying for doctor degrees.
¡¡¡¡The state-of-art
teaching and research facilities include a reference room, a psychology
laboratory and the expanding pre-school education laboratory.
The reference room has more than 5000 volumes of books and 200
kinds of academic journals. More than 100 sets of experimental
instruments are available in psychology laboratory. The pre-school
education laboratory has 40 pianos or electric pianos with an
extension of dance hall.
¡¡¡¡The faculty¡¯s
research projects are granted by the national, provincial and
institutional research funds. Thirty research projects are ongoing
in 2003. The faculty members have published more than 100 academic
papers and ten textbooks or monographs. The project of "Experiment
with Structure Transform in Primary School Mathematics Teaching"
was funded by the National Education Commission. A complete set
of experimental mathematics textbooks for primary schools, after
strict assessment, has been approved by the National Primary and
Middle School Textbooks Evaluation Committee. Its publication
has been well received and put in use in schools of several provinces
and autonomous cities in China.
¡¡¡¡The Shanxi
University Art Teaching Center is affiliated to and administrated
by the School of Education. The great progress has been made to
facilitate students' development in arts and humanism. The Psychology
Consulting Center is a university-entrusted institution providing
psychological services to all the students in the university.
In addition, since 1990 the school has been responsible for the
university¡¯s faculty development programs in educational theory
and young faculty training. This program is also open to the public.
More than 10,000 teachers have participated. The program was highly
praised by the ¡°North China Faculty Development Center¡± a branch
institution of the Ministry of Education of China.
¡¡¡¡With 70-years
of history, the School of Education is actively meeting the challenges
from the new social development and knowledge economy in the 21
century. The school is taking more innovative efforts to ensure
the top quality in both teaching and research.
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| Contact Information |
School
of Education Science of Shanxi University
36 Wucheng Lu,
Taiyuan, 030006
P. R. China |
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