Historical Reflection on the Dual Impact of Modern Renxu School System on Normal Education
Normal education is of great significance to the educational modernization for a powerful country.Thoughts of the New Culture Movement,advanced educational beliefs and educators'patriotism played a vital role in the establishment of the Renxu system in the historical development of China's school system and normal education.This paper explored its series of reforms in secondary and higher normal education that has exerted a profound impact on modern normal education in terms of optimizing the curriculum design of secondary normal schools,diversifying the training methods and elevating the academic status of normal education while abolishing the public fund system of normal students and the independent establishment of normal education,and properly altering the cultivation of subject knowledge.It thus discussed the implications of Renxu's historic experience for the construction of a high-quality education system,suggesting that specific steps can be taken to increase the governmental input in normal education,foster the characteristics of teachers education in normal universities,expand the faculty cultivation,promote the coordinated development of regional education,streamline the construction of teachers education curriculum system,and emphasize the cultivation of students'interdisciplinary skills in normal colleges,to advance the further development of China's normal education in the new era.
Renxu school systemmodern Chinese educationnormal educationteachers education