A Study On The Rural Principal Professional Development Under The Background Of Urbanization

In recent years, although the topic of the principal professional development hasdrawn the educational researchers`alchemical attention and produced a number ofvaluable research results. However, these research achievements mainly focus on thediscussion of general principal professional development process, mechanism andpolicy support, which obviously lack of deep understanding of the plight of thespecific principal group`s professional development, especially lack of the study ofrural school principal professional development. Therefore, this paper selected therural school principal`s professional development as my research topic.With the policy paper National Development Planning ofurbanization(2014-2020) was promulgated, China society is about to enter a key stageof the fast development of urbanization, which will bring unknown challenge andopportunity to the rural education. The rural education has become an important topicin the development of urbanization. This study of the rural principal professionaldevelopment is not a general research, on the contrary, we put the research issuesunder the background of urbanization. The study makes an analysis of the problemsexisting in the rural principal professional development, the changes of rural principalprofessional living environment and the new challenges of the principal role. At last,the research puts forward some countermeasures and suggestions on how to promoterural principals' professional development. This study enriches the research of ruraleducation in the process of urbanization in some extent.This paper consists of seven parts: introduction, five chapters and conclusion.The introduction makes an general overview of the background, significance andvalue, the core concept definition, literature review, theoretical basis and the researchmethods of the research.The first chapter discusses the origin of the problems of principal professionaldevelopment in rural areas with the perspective view from the urban-rural dualstructure, educational management system and educational finance system.The second chapter introduces the different problems of rural principalprofessional under the background of urbanization. Chinese urbanization can bebriefly divided into provincial urbanization level and the county level. In theprovincial urbanization level, the most prominent problem is the unbalancededucation development in the combination region of urban and rural. And in the county urbanization level, the problem of school development and planning isparticularly important.The third chapter discusses the restricting factors of the professionalization basedon the three rural principal's personal interviews. The discussion focus on the culturalconflict between urban and rural schools. And based on the analysis of rural education,the study also tries to clarify the rural principal role in the process of new urbanizationpolicy.The fourth chapter introduces the international experience and domestic practiceof rural principal professional development, thus makes a solid theoretical basis forputting forward the reasonable suggestion of rural principals professionaldevelopment in the process of urbanization.The fifth chapter describes the goals decomposition and path selection of therural principal professional development. The study makes an analysis of the valueand mission of the rural principal professional development and in the end putforward the internal and external strategy to enhance the professional development.In the conclusion part, the study summarized the research, and prospected theideal state of rural school principal professional development.