The Transformation Of The Normal Education To Teacher Education Research

In the UK, the organized teacher training began in the early nineteenth century. During more than two centuries, the British teachers training went through normal education era which is from the early1900s to the late1980s, and teacher education era which is from the1990s to the present.After the Second World War, the British normal education began to transit to teacher education. The process of the transition, the difference between before and after the transition, the causes and the characteristics of the transition are the focuses of research paper, and on the basis of this, deliberating the present teacher education reform in China.By using the documentary research to understand the transition history of the British teacher education, and forming a whole understanding of the history of teacher education in the UK. Based on this, the transition of teacher education after the Second World War is mainly analyzed, which lay the foundation for analyzing the causes and the characteristics in last part.This research is divided into four parts:The first part is the foreword, mainly introduces the cause of this topic, Reviews the academic history, defines the key concept, and briefly expounds the ideas and methods.The second part is the main text and mainly expounds the development history of the teacher training in the UK. The history of the British teacher training is divided into two stages:normal education era and teacher education era. Among them, the normal education era is from the early19th to the1980s, and this stage is divided into two segments. The first stage is the beginnings and typing stage which is from the early19th to1940s. The second stage is the development and typing stage which is from the late1940s to1980s. Britain’s teacher education era is from the1980s to the present, The author will describe this period of history in two parts: the start and the development of teacher education.The third part focuses on the analysis of the transition of the normal education to the teacher education in the UK. The author describe it form two aspects:the start and deepening of the transition. Based on this, Contrast the teacher training before and after the transition. The comparison is mainly from the training target, training form, training mode and training contents.The forth part is the last part of the paper, tries to think about the transition of the British normal education to teacher education. On the basis of analysis of the causes and characteristics of the transition, giving some proposals to the present reformation of Chinese teacher education in the current.