School Transformation In Social Changes: From Longmen Normal School To Jiangsu Provincial Shanghai Middle School （1904-1949）

In 1865,Longmen Academy was born under the background of turbulent political scene.It opened up Shanghai to explore new learning methods.In 1904,it was restructured into Longmen Normal School.The school has contributed to the establishment of my country’s elementary teacher education system and the localized Chinese teacher education system.In 1927,Longmen Normal School merged with multiple schools into Jiangsu Provincial Shanghai Middle School.The school changed from a normal school to a comprehensive middle school with multiple subjects such as general subjects,business subjects,and normal subjects.The successful transformation from a normal school to a comprehensive middle school,the school’s past principals and all faculty members have made unremitting efforts,continuously explored in school management,curriculum teaching and other aspects,the school is well-known in Jiangsu Province,famous in China,and abroad.Specially researched the school transition period from Longmen Normal School to Jiangsu Provincial Shanghai Middle School,and presented its tortuous development process,hoping to see the big from the small,so as to get a glimpse of the true face and internal logic of the school’s transformation and development.And try to summarize its characteristics and experience in running a school.The full text adopts a total score structure.The first is to sort out the development and changes of the school from Longmen Normal School to Jiangsu Provincial Shanghai Middle School.First examine the era background of the school’s emergence,and then divide the school’s historical evolution into five periods according to the major nodes of school reform,which are described in three paragraphs,namely the normal period of Longmen Normal School and the Second Normal School of Jiangsu Province,the period of Jiangsu Provincial Shanghai Middle School,the period of Anti-Japanese War and the private Huxin Middle School,and the resumption of the school were the period of Jiangsu Provincial Shanghai Middle School,which made a vertical exploration and outline of the historical development of the school,laying the foundation for further exploration.Second,discuss the school’s education goals and management characteristics.Principals are the leaders of school development.They are good at integrating human,material and financial resources,coupled with their unique school-running ideas and school management concepts,so that the school has achieved maximum development in different historical periods.Therefore,this part specially selects the typical key figures in the school’s historical development-Principal Jia Fengzhen,Principal Zheng Tonghe,and Principal Shen Yizhen to explore in depth how they created education goals and how to implement management reforms.Third,analyze the school’s curriculum construction and teaching innovation.Through the construction of curriculum system,classroom teaching and textbook compilation,practice and education reform,extracurricular activities and other levels to explore the school’s connotation reform.The school is good at continuously exploring and improving its own characteristic curriculum system in the process of transformation and development,especially focusing on learning from foreign teaching methods,actively improving the classroom teaching ecology,focusing on practice and internships,and carry out a variety of extracurricular activities.Fourth,inspect the group of teachers and students and their activities.The school has not only absorbed a group of well-educated,dedicated and enthusiastic teachers to teach in the school,but also hired many erudite scholars and social elites to give lectures and help in different periods,thereby ensuring the health of the school’s students to a large extent.Growth and good social reputation after graduation.This part is through the empirical analysis of the group of teachers and students and their activities,highlighting the true state of the group of teachers and students of the school and its value meaning.Fifth,summary and reflection.Based on the historical evolution from Longmen Normal School to Jiangsu Provincial Shanghai Middle School,this part attempts to summarize the characteristics of the school’s transition from 1904 to 1949,and reflect on the school’s centuries-old development motivation and the enlightenment of school-running experience to today’s education reform.It shows the unique school spirit,multi-dimensional exploration path and contemporary value of this case in the changes of modern school modernization.