The Study On The Role Conflict Of The Deans Of Teacher Education At Chinese Normal Universities

In China, Normal universities bear the duties of teacher education.Institute of education as the most distinctive organization of Normal universities,fully reflects its prominent role in teacher education. So the directors of teachereducation play an irreplaceable role in Normal universities. This paper uses the roletheory of sociology and the leader theory of Organizational behavior, through thecollection, sorting and study of relevant literature to research the role conflictproblem of the directors of teacher education. We mainly discuss the followingquestions: what the performance of the role conflicts; what the roots of role conflicts;how to resolve the role conflicts;Institute of education as the subsystem of Normal university, Bear the samefunction as the university. Combining the normal university’s own education goal,institute of education of Normal university have three functions.Firstly, cultivatehigh quality education talents; Secondly, deepening and innovating the educationscientific research; Thirdly, providing guidance and consulting on the education forthe society.To understand the states and functions of institute of education of Normaluniversity can help us to learn the role of the directors of teacher education. Mainlyincludes: The guider of the education college discipline construction; The leader ofthe reform of normal university; The undertaker of teacher education mission. Inaddition, the director of teacher education as a member of the university presidents,they also play the role of the leader, the manager and the scholar.Through the method of qualitative analysis and the literature method we can seethat the role conflicts of the directors of teacher education mainly includes: There areconflict between the role of academic and manager; Lack of corresponding power inthe playing; They are some differences between the directors of teacher educationOught to be and The actual playing.To be understand the causes of the role conflicts, we must analysis of the role conflicts,we can see that: Individual personality andeducation dean position does not match; Dean "ShuangJianTiao" phenomenon, makeits role overload; The role of resources are not sufficient; The Comprehensive ofnormal university make the teacher education characteristics not obvious. So we cansee that the roots of the role conflicts of the directors of teacher education includingpersonal and system, so we must Consider various aspects to resolve this problem.The author thinks that if we want to resolve this problem, we can do this: Organizingthe training of the position to improve the ability of role playing;Further clarify theduty of the position of the dean of the institute of education in Normaluniversity.Establish unified university internal management system in liability; Toestablish the important status of the institute of education in Normal university.