Study On Continuing Education For Teachers In Middle Schools In The View Of The Theory Of Learning Organization

Since the new century ,questions such as teachers' quality and training and something else in the field of continuing education for teachers have become into worldwide popular subjects in the field of educational theory and practice. With the emergence of the knowledge economy , the world is more and more quickly going into learning society based on learning organization .The theory of learning organization provides us with a theoretic basis to study continuing education for teachers. However, most of the present studies on continuing education for teachers focus on the teaching content, the teaching method, the teaching benefit and other questions about continuing education itself ,and seldom discuss the subjuct as continuingeducation for teachers-teachers and their learning. In this dissertation,the author tries to discuss the questions about continuing education for teachers by means of the view points and methods of learning organization.The dissertation consists of three sections excluding the preface and the conclusion. Here is the summary of the dissertation:First of all, systematizing the essence of learning organization and discussing its enlightenment for continuing education for teachers.Second, introducing the investigation of continuing education for teachers of middle school in Fanchang county, Anhui province by questionnaire and relevant interviews according to the theory of learning organization, then pointing out present problems in the course of the continuing education for teachers: a) the variation in the purpose of continuing education for teachers; b) the loss of the subjectivity of continuing education for teachers; c) the actual effects of continuing education for teachers being sceptical; d) training organization not adapting to continuing education for teachers; e) educational planning institution lacking of systematic thinking on continuing education for teachers.Third, pointing out that it is necessary and possible that a school as a teachers' organization become a learning organization, then providing tactics to improve the quality of continuing education for teachers according to the theory of learning organization. These tactics are: a) school organization: to construct a mode of school learning organization for teachers' continuing education; b) training organization: to play new roles in the course of teachers' continuing education; c) planning institution: to resort to effective measures to ensure continuing education for teachers.