Teacher Educators In China To Carry Out A Preliminary Exploration Of Self-study

In 1990's. a new scholarly movement emerged in the field of Western Teacher Education——Self-Study Movement. It was initiated by some teacher educators, and later was responded by more teacher educators and got rapid development during several years with the theme of attention to self's teaching reflection and self professional development. Its emergence made a long-time neglected group of teacher educators known by the public. They regard Self-Study as an important means for learning and professional development.The group of teacher educators got less attention in China, and teacher educator research in China also has a short history, the knowing of Self-Study is at the stage of enlightening. Based on the ideas that the key to the quality of teacher education lies on teacher educators, the professionalization of teacher educators must come before the professionalization of teachers, and this is a life-long and self-conscious process, according to the line of "what—why—how—attentions—future and challenges of Self-Study", the dissertation is to systematically introduce Self-Study on the base of the situation of our country and discuss from the theoretical and practical perspectives and the granted and real states in order to let Self-Study makes contribution to the development of Chinese teacher educators and the advance of the quality of teacher education.This dissertation consists of five chapters:firstly, it introduces Self-Study ideas from full perspectives; and then discusses the necessity and feasibility of introducing it to the field of Chinese teacher education; next, it explores the whole process of practicing Self-Study; the fourth, it considers the realistic problems which will be confronted in Self-Study practice in China and suggests some countermeasures; at last, it prospects the future and the challenges of Self-Study. In the epilogue, it puts forward that Self-Study starts the new field of teacher education research, and advocates that Self-Study helps explore and construct new Chinese teacher education theory and practice. at the same time. it also sparkplugs teacher educators to regard Self-Study as an attitude, a kind of quality and a sort of life style and make the ideas of Self-Study immerses into their lives and they could become into self-regulating teacher educators. and get continuable development. which can model and promote student teachers and in-service teachers change their beliefs of teacher career and let them pursue happy and full teacher's life.