Faculty of Education

HISTORY

Faculty of Education is one of the earliest established faculties of Yunnan Normal University. Its predecessor is the Department of education of Southwest Associated University, which was founded in 1938 during the war of Anti-Japanese. It was formed by the combination of Department of Education and Philosophy from Peking University, Department of Philosophy and Department of Psychology from Tsinghua University, Department of Philosophic Education from Nankai University, as well as Education Department from Yunnan University. In August 1998, the Department of education of Yunnan Normal University was merged with the Education Management Branch of Yunnan Education College. In 1999, it was merged with Yunnan Institute of Education Science and established the College of Education Science and Management of Yunnan Normal University. In July 2019, the university integrated the College of Education Science and Management, Yunnan Institute of Education Science, Institute of Higher education and Regional Development Research and established the Faculty of Education in Yunnan Normal University. And in the same year, the university established the PRC Committee of Faculty of Education of Yunnan Normal University, which was selected as the first batch of pilot units of comprehensive reform named “San Quan Yu Ren”.

ACADEMIC DEPARTMENTS

Faculty of Education has set up teaching institutions and research platforms including Department of Education, Department of Psychology, College of Preschool Education, Department of Special Education, College of Teacher Education, Key Laboratory of National Education Informatization, Research Institute of Yunnan Educational Sciences, Institute of Higher Education and Regional Development. The faculty has teacher groups led by "Yangtze River scholars of the Ministry of Education", "Yun Ling high-level talents" and "Young top-notch of Yunnan ten thousand talents plan". At present, the Faculty has 116 teaching staff, including 94 full-time teachers. Among the full-time teachers, there are 22 teachers with senior professional titles (including 4 secondary professors), 42 teachers with associate senior professional titles, 58 Doctor's and Master's supervisors and 50 teachers with Doctor's degree accounting for 53.19%. There are 2166 students, including 1475 undergraduates, 615 graduates and 76 doctoral students. There are 11 party branches under the Party committee of the University, with a total of 357 party members. Among them, 74 teachers are party members, accounting for 63.8% of the total number of faculty members; 283 students are party members, accounting for 13.07% of the total number of students.

DEGREE PROGRAMS

Faculty of Education has the integrated cultivation system of talents with Bachelor, Master and PhD. Our faculty sets up four majors including Pedagogy, Applied Psychology, Preschool Education and Special Education. Among them, Pedagogy and Preschool Education were selected into the construction of national first-class undergraduate majors, Applied Psychology was selected into the construction of provincial first-class undergraduate majors. There are two first-class Master degree awarding centers, eight second-class Master degree programs (Principles of Education, Curriculum and Instruction, Preschool Education, Comparative Education, Children's Organization and Ideology Education, Development and Educational Psychology, Basic Psychology and Applied Psychology) and two professional Master degree programs (Master of education and Master of Applied Psychology). There is one Doctoral degree authorization point for the first-level discipline of Pedagogy, one professional degree authorization point for the Doctor of Education, and one Post- doctoral research station of Pedagogy in Yunnan Province. The major of Pedagogy has entered the B- list in the fourth round of national discipline evaluation, and the professional degree level of Master of Education ranks in the B list. The discipline of Pedagogy was selected into the "National first-class discipline" construction projects, and the discipline of Psychology was selected into the "Yunnan first-class discipline" construction projects.

RESEARCH & TEACHING

In recent years, Faculty of Education has undertaken 105 national and provincial projects, such as the National Philosophy and Social Sciences Foundation of China, the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Humanities and Social Sciences projects of the Ministry of Education, with nearly 9 million scientific research funds, 610 academic papers and 57 books and textbooks. At present, there are 77 projects under research, with funds of nearly 7.72 million yuan. The achievements have successively won 2 national teaching achievement awards, 1 second prize of the Fifth National Education Science Research excellent achievement award, 1 special award and 1 second prize of the National education professional degree case teaching competition, 1 third prize of the National ethnic excellent research report, 3 first prizes of Yunnan higher education or basic education teaching achievement award, 2 third prizes of Yunnan Science and technology progress award, 1 second prize of the national education professional degree case teaching competition, 1 third prize of the national ethnic work excellent research report, 3 first prizes of Yunnan higher education or basic education teaching achievement award, and 2 third prizes of Yunnan Science and technology Progress Award, 22 awards for outstanding achievements in Philosophy and Social Sciences of Yunnan Province. The faculty members won the first prize of Yunnan staff professional skills competition, and the titles of "teaching experts of discipline of education in higher normal colleges and universities " and "women's model of May 1st in Yunnan Province". The instructors and counselors in our faculty won the 2020 national counselor of the year nomination award, the 2019 Yunnan College Counselor studio, one second prize in the national college counselor quality and ability competition, more than 10 awards in the Yunnan counselor quality and ability competition and the teacher professional ability competition in mental health education among Yunnan colleges.