论高等师范院校的转型

On the Transformation of Normal Universities

自20世纪90年代以来,教育行政部门和高等师范院校对高等师范院校“生存”危机的应对策略大体上可以分为四种类型:改变专业设置;重视学术研究,调整学科结构;院校更名与合并;明确提出实行“转型”。由于剧烈的社会变迁以及由此造成的教师教育的重大变化,高等师范院校实际上是在没有足够准备的情况下,被“抛”出原有的运行轨道,并且必须在极为短暂的时间里做出自己的选择。在这种情况下,改革往往既没有基本的理论准备,也缺乏整体、全局和战略性的思考,客观上甚至不允许从容地进行这样的基础性工作。但正因如此,改革应当是渐进的,改革的尝试应当是多样化的。

Since 1990s, in principle, educational administrative departments and normal universities have 4 types of answering strategy to the ＂living＂ crisis in terms of changing specialty set-up, valuing academic research, adjusting disciplinary structure and renaming and unity of universities, clearly bringing forward ＂transformation＂. Due to the severe social variance and the big changes of teachers＂ education accordingly, normal universities were actually ＂thrown away＂ from the original running track without enough preparation, and had to make choice in a very short time. Under this circumstance, reform sometimes lacked for not only basic theoretical preparation, but also overall and strategic consideration. Furthermore, such basic work was not even allowed to be carried out leisurely. Therefore, reform should be gradual and the attempts of reform should be diversified.