世纪之交高等师范院校面临的挑战与抉择

Challenges and Policy Decision Facing China's Teachers' Colleges of Higher Learning at the End of the 20th Century

世纪之交的中国高等师范院校面临着种种严峻的挑战 ,其中最主要的挑战来自五方面 :即社会主义市场经济对现行师范教育体制的冲击 ;知识经济时代对高素质教师的要求 ;基础教育的发展对提高师资学历层次和专业素质的迫切需要 ,名牌综合性大学兴办师范专业对现行师范教育体制格局的打破 ;国家近年对重点大学的政策倾斜和重点投入拉大了差距 ;这些挑战 ,对于高等师范院校的未来前途 ,都具有决定性、根本性、全局性的影响。中国的高等师范院校应该更新教育观念 ,建立开放的办学体制和课程体系教学模式 ;形成职前培养。

At the end of this century, our teachers colleges are facing various challenges, the main ones of which are the shock from the socialist market economy to our teacher training system based on traditional planned economy, the increasing requirements of intellectual economy for qualified teaching staff, the urgent demands made by the development of our elementary education on raising the academic level and specialty quality of our teachers, the permission of China's famous universities to run teachers colleges by the state; the increasing distance caused by the state's increasing investment in the state key universities. All these challenges will make a decisive, fundamental and all-round impact on the future of China's teachers colleges, which should pay much more attention to forming China's new teachers training system by renewing their educational concepts, establishing open system of running schools and developing course syllabus and teaching modes with their own characteristics.