On The Development Of Pedagogy Specialty In China

The difficult situation of the development of pedagogy specialty in China has aroused the interest of educators of both theory and practice. Although much research about it has been done, the most is limited in specific fields (such as educational aim, educational model and curriculum designing etc.) and the complete and overall study is little. Owing to this fact, this article tries to seek the existing problems from the history and present situation of the development of pedagogy specialty as well as an overall reflection on it on the basis of investigation and interview.This article is divided into three parts.The first part describes the history and present situation on the development of pedagogy specialty in China. First, the article reviews the history of the specialty development. Next, it presents the present situation of specialty development by analyzing the distribution of graduates and the interviewing of the graduates. In the analysis, longitudinal analysis is the employment direction of the graduates specialized in pedagogy during the last 16 years in the college of education in Henan University. Crosswise analysis is done through the employment direction of the graduates of Grade 2002 of a few institutions in the whole country .The author endeavors to seek the rules and diversifications from the comparison of them. Finally, the article explores some specific questions that are related to the specialty through the interview of the graduates.The second part presents the existing problems of specialty development. There are four aspects as following:(1) the instability of specialty development .(2) the unclear understanding of discipline character and status of pedagogy.(3) the lack of conceptions on pedagogy.(4) the imperfections of the field construction.The third part presents five propositions about the specialty development: (1) stabilizing the specialty development. We should endeavor to do the following three pieces of work on setting the specialty development namely: experts demonstrating, the survey on the social demand and macroscopic regulation on policies. Through overall investigation, demonstrating and regulation, we can create the stability of the specialty development.(2) reconstructing the conceptions on pedagogy . It needs to start with the two main aspects: First, to form the correct discipline attitude. Second, to strengthen the cultivation of the conceptions on pedagogy.(3) orientating correctly the educational aim of the specialty. The author presents a tentative idea about cultivating elementary teachers and educational theorists.(4) improving curriculum system and reforming educational model.(5) responding to the summons of society. The author thinks we should reply the summons of the society in facing teacher education to accelerate education reform and the development of culture and civilization.At last the author makes a brief summary in the conclusion remarks and presents some ideas of her.