Research In The Present Conditions And Development Of Provincial Education Colleges

To solve the practical problems of insufficiency of teachers in elementary education and poor education quality, provincial and city education colleges in the nature of both teacher-training and adult have been established while independent normal colleges and universities are developing simultaneously. As a result, normal colleges coexist with education colleges. This is the product of the specific historical period in China. Provincial education co(?)leges are confronted with a new challenge since the implementation of the policy of reform and opening to the outside world and with the reform in the higher educational structure, the institution of a new system of education for teachers and in particular the transformation from the separation between the cultivation of teachers and teacher training into their integration. Provincial education colleges come under stronger attack than ever in their existence and development. Great difficulties and the crisis of existence force provincial education colleges to try to find a way out.This paper deals with the present conditions of provincial education colleges and challenge facing them, sums up the new tries which education colleges make at their development models and inqures into their development orientation and the way forward at present and in a period to come with the theory of education for teachers and lifelong education as a guide and by the use of literature and methods for investigation. In theory, this paper attempts to give a description of the present conditions of provicial education colleges, carrie out analysis of the causes and make a summary of new experiences so as to examine closely and verify the theory about the integration of the education for teachers and lifelong education. In practice, this paper intends to summsrize the new experience of education colleges' development models, expore their provincial education colleges' development orientation and path in conformity of the thought in lifelong education and development tendency in education for teachers and advance suggestions as to the development of provincial education colleges for their refernce in the light of the understanding of their the present conditions, their actual situation, the reality in our country and the development conditions of regional economy.