Organization Development Of Faculty Development At Dutch Research Universities

With the advent of popularization of higher education, the teaching quality of higher education becomes a focus of people’s concern. As a crucial factor of impacting on the students’study, teacher’s quality attracts world’s attention. At present, establishing relevant faculty development organization has become one of the important ways to promote education quality in universities. The purpose of this thesis is to deepen people’s understanding of the Dutch research on universities faculty development organization, and provide construction reference for domestic research universities faculty development organization. Firstly, this thesis reviews the domestic and overseas studies on faculty development organization and discusses relevant concepts, theoretical foundation and research design. Secondly; it analyzes the background of Dutch research universities faculty development organization. Thirdly, it selects one typical liberal arts research university and one typical science class research university for cases analysis. Lastly, it summarizes construction experience of Dutch research universities faculty development organization, and puts forward relevant suggestions for construction of domestic research universities faculty development organization. Based on all analysis, this study concluded that:(1) Leiden university’s ICLON is research oriented faculty development organization."Establish school running mode","establish a professional team to provide development support","build circular quality security system " these three ways of its organization development respectively reveals three characteristics of learning organization:"build shared vision ",’continuous personal and group learning" and "systematic thought".(2) Wageningen university’s HR departments of the science groups is human resources type faculty development organization."Use tenure employment system as main work line","balance goals of teachers and university through performance and development interview","use reflection to construct continuous quality guarantee system" these three ways of its organization development respectively reveals three characteristics of learning organization:"cultivate organization members’sense of self-surmounts","build shared vision " and "systematic thought".(3) Comparative results of Leiden university’s ICLON and Wageningen university’s HR departments of the science groups show that:they have different and similar characteristics of learning organization.(4) There are three main lessons of Dutch research universities faculty development organization construction:universities’common view of faculty development and close cooperation, establish faculty development organization based on self features, carry out various development programs.(5) Based on the experience of Dutch research universities faculty development organization, this thesis puts forward following suggestion for the construction of domestic research universities faculty development organization:government should give more support to establish various alliance of faculty development organization, and encourage development of external evaluation organization; research universities should strengthen communication with teachers, establish a professional team to provide development support, pay attention to self assessment、 analysis and reflection, carry out various development programmes.The major contributions of this thesis are as follows:this thesis reviews foreign and domestic research on faculty development organization, shows the different development process of Chinese and foreign research, and provides reference for the research on our research universities’faculty development organization; the detailed analysis of Leiden university and Wageningen university faculty development organization will deepen people’s understanding of research universities in the Netherlands.