Study On The Characteristics Of Teacher Education In The Teacher Education Institutions

In the countries of Europe and America, the activities for training teachers has been transformed from a single and closed"normal education"into an openness and diversification"teacher education"since the Forties of the last century. Especially after the Second World War, with the world's fast developing economies and the growing needs of receiving higher education, Many teachers' training colleges expanded the scale of education actively,and reduce the traditional functions of the teachers'specialized cultivation at the same time, They have been converted into the comprehensive university or the colleges of Education in a famous university through Upgrading and amalgamating.Against the backdrop of the development trend of education, the teachers' education universities must adopt the coping tactics. Because of the internal and external pressures of survival and development, the normal university takes the initiative to meet the needs of the social and economic development, intensifies the efforts to set up its disciplines and improve its field of Majors, continue to increase the numbers of the subjects of Non-Teachers Training, And Changes the education functions, So as to transform the ability only train teachers into many kinds of ability for the social. It means that the single branch of knowledge of traditional normal colleges is turning into the multi-disciplinary and comprehensive university. At present, There are many problems in the transformation of normal university in our country, Especially these problems such as the marginalization of teacher education, And the tendency that Fading weakening the distinguishing feature of teacher education has more or less existed in the normal university. Making clear the feature of the substance and approach in the teacher education, and Exploring a mode of transition which has the China's characteristics in the teachers' education universities, Making clear how to inherit and develop the feature of teacher education and how to improve core competitiveness of the teachers' training universities, all of these are of vital importance and of great practical significance .This article starts with the background of the transformation from"Normal education"to"Teacher education", through the historical analysis of the teacher education's formation and changes in the teachers' education universities, making sure the factors and problems which impact the transformation of the teachers' training universities, and exploring the causes that maintains the characteristics of teacher education. Exploring the related Literature which has the education characteristics and Focus on making a general connotation of teacher education characteristics .This article summarizes five major dimensions of teacher education in the whole system of it: the system of the teacher education, the research Interests of the teacher education, the Courses of the teacher education, the training model of the teacher education and the field of the teacher education. From those five aspects to explore the approach that keeps the characteristics of the teacher education.The full text is divided into four parts:Chapter I: "Preface", defining the core concept through sorting out the relevant research mainly at home and abroad. Especially, the meaning of the teacher education's characteristics hasn't been defined at home and abroad, so the research findings that the meaning of the characteristics in teacher education is one part of the key to the study. Furthermore, The conceptual analysis of "characteristics of teacher education" has proposed a programmatic selected target, and the key to the study is in the Chapter III "the way that the teacher education institutions keep their characteristics ".Chapter II: " The reason that teacher education institutions how to keep their characteristics in our country ". First of all, Try to trace Formation and Changes of the teacher education and the teacher education institutions from a historical perspective, and seek the power of formation and changes; in addition, in terms of the Height of philosophy , exploring various formation reasons from "teacher education" to "teacher education", and focus on the teacher Education's realistic concept of values in our country, Finally, There is a problem that teacher Education is being marginalized when our country is in the transformation of teacher education universities. The tendency that diluting or weakening the characteristic of teacher Education has more or less exist in the teacher Education Universities, This will inevitably affect our country's sustainable development in teacher education, and will weaken the core competitiveness of the teacher Education Universities.Chapter III: "The approach that keeps the characteristics of teacher education in the teacher education institutions in our country", It is the emphasis research in this article. During the period of the Teacher Education's transformation, In order to improve their own core development competitiveness, Teacher Education Universities must take effective measures to Strive for the development of the teacher education's characteristic.The characteristics of teacher Education formed in the process of its own inherent mechanism, It is included in the system of teacher education, It tempered itself in harsh conditions and came forth in the long-term practice of development, This article summarizes five main dimensions in the system of teacher education: the system of the teacher education, the research Interests of the teacher education, the Courses of the teacher education, the training model of the teacher education and the field of the teacher education, from these five-pronged systems to explore practical ways of keeping the teacher education's characteristicsConclusion: The characteristics of the teacher education have melted into the teacher education system. The characteristics of the teacher education came true relying on these essential factors such as the system of the teacher education, the research Interests of the teacher education, the Courses of the teacher education, the training model of the teacher education and the field of the teacher, and so on. It came from the long-term practice of teacher education, and it is the core competency when the teacher Education Universities face the various challenges at present. With the further comprehensive development of the teacher education, and the open model of teacher education is driving to the maturity, teacher education Universities have basically changed from the structure to the function, Characteristics of teacher education will have a new meaning. Reflecting on the developmental tracks of teacher education in our country, the characteristics of the teacher education will show greater transcendency.