Regulation and Promotion: A Review on Universities' Practices of the Teacher Education Accreditation System in China(PDF)
《南京师大学报》（社会科学版）[ISSN:1006-6977/CN:61-1281/TN]
- Issue:
- 2024年04期
- Page:
- 58-71
- Research Field:
- 教育学研究
- Publishing date:
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- Title:
- Regulation and Promotion: A Review on Universities' Practices of the Teacher Education Accreditation System in China
- Author(s):
- TIAN Tengfei
- Keywords:
- higher education institutions; teacher education program accreditation; institutional practice; teacher education; teacher training
- PACS:
- -
- DOI:
- -
- Abstract:
- As a national initiative, the accreditation of teacher education programs has undergone significant development since its pilot launch by the Ministry of Education in Jiangsu and Guangxi in 2014. It has progressed through the stages of initial alignment, gradual expansion, and now institutionalized implementation. After a decade of exploration and practice, the teacher education program accreditation system has played a positive role in several key areas: implementing China's major policies on teacher workforce development and teacher education, standardizing the conduct of teacher education programs, promoting the intrinsic development of these programs, transforming the educational and teaching philosophies of teacher educators, enhancing the teaching quality of university faculty, and strengthening the quality assurance system in universities. This has led to a scenario where universities place greater emphasis on teacher education programs, candidates show increased preference for these programs, academia pays more attention to them, and society shows more concern for them. However, there are also challenges identified, such as regional differences in the pace of accreditation, inter-university variations in the level of emphasis, individual differences in the effort devoted to accreditation, inadequate understanding of the value and implications of the accreditation system, insufficient recognition of its complexity, and limited research on common issues. To better harness the advantages of the system, it is necessary to further refine the operational mechanisms of the system, encourage stakeholders to invest more effort, and strengthen targeted research on prominent issues in curriculum evaluation.
Last Update: 2024-08-25