Guangdong Second Normal University

The predecessor of Guangdong Second Normal University was Guangdong Institute of education and administration founded in 1955. In 1960, it was renamed Guangdong Institute of education. In the same year, Guangdong Normal University of industry and agriculture was merged. It was closed in 1970, and its main body was transferred to Xinxing County in Zhaoqing area. Zhaoqing normal school and Zhaoqing normal college were established successively. It resumed in 1978 and was designated as a provincial Adult Normal University in 1982. In the same year, it began to hold adult normal undergraduate education, general junior college education in 1985, and general undergraduate education from 1990 to 2008. In 2010, with the approval of the Ministry of education, it was restructured into an ordinary undergraduate university and renamed as Guangdong Second Normal University. In 2014, he obtained the right to confer bachelor's degree. In 2017, it passed the undergraduate teaching qualification assessment of the Ministry of education.

   school is located in Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province, with Haizhu and Huadu campuses. There are 16 teaching faculties and departments, including the Institute of education, and 15 research institutions, including the basic education research center. There are 37 undergraduate majors, which are distributed in 9 disciplines, including pedagogy, literature, science, engineering, law, history, management, art and economics. There are three provincial characteristic disciplines: pedagogy, mathematics and ecology. There are more than 11000 full-time undergraduate students.

   the school has 859 teaching staff, including 498 full-time teachers. There are 193 full-time teachers with senior professional titles, accounting for 38.76% of the total number of teachers, and 35.9% with doctor's degree. More than 30 people have won the honorary titles of "national model teacher", "national excellent teacher", "excellent teacher in southern Guangdong", "advanced educator in southern Guangdong", "rookie in southern Guangdong Education" and "young cultural talents in Guangdong Province". There are 1 National Supervisor (the 9th), 2 provincial supervisors and 4 provincial supervisors; 1 national expert group member of basic education curriculum reform; 1 school (kindergarten) head training expert of the Ministry of education; 9 national experts of national training program; 1 provincial inheritor of intangible cultural heritage; 8 master tutors of other universities.

   the school takes leading the reform and development of basic education as its own duty, and takes "moral education as a model" as its motto. Adhering to the school running concept of "attaching equal importance to democracy and science, and the unity of humanity and nature", adhering to the fine tradition of "pursuing truth, paying attention to people's livelihood, and having the courage to take on responsibilities", we should educate teachers and students to "learn as gentlemen and be good at the world at the same time", and strive to cultivate applied talents with "sound personality, wide cultural knowledge, solid professional foundation, and strong vocational skills".

   according to the development trend of higher education, the University actively implements the strategies of standardized development, connotative development, characteristic development and innovative development, establishes the awareness of quality, speeds up the transformation and development, unswervingly takes the road of characteristic school running, and gradually improves the quality of talent training.

     the school should establish the concept of "running a school based on Teachers", implement the strategy of "strengthening the school with talents", speed up the construction of the teaching team; establish the concept of "teaching based on students", innovate the talent training mode, fully expand students' autonomy in learning, and promote students' growth and success in an all-round way. Our college students' Entrepreneurship incubation base has been recognized as "Guangdong small and micro enterprise innovation and entrepreneurship demonstration base" by Guangdong Provincial Economic and Information Commission, and "creating space for all" has been recognized as "Guangdong provincial pilot unit of creating space for all" by Guangdong Provincial Department of science and technology. In the past three years, students have won more than 1800 awards in various national and provincial competitions; in 2016 and 2017, the initial employment rates of undergraduate graduates were 97.26% and 96.24% respectively, both exceeding the average level of undergraduate universities in the province.

   schools attach importance to scientific research, and teachers promote teaching through scientific research. Since the 12th Five Year Plan, the university has obtained 30 national level scientific research projects, 235 provincial and ministerial level scientific research projects, published 2410 academic works, won 2 provincial scientific research awards, and produced a number of influential achievements. Teachers integrate their scientific research achievements into undergraduate education and talent training in the form of classroom teaching, college students' innovation and entrepreneurship education, and the second classroom, so as to promote teaching by scientific research. Journal of Guangdong Second Normal University (HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES) has been awarded the national excellent social science journals for four consecutive times, and has been selected as "China's core journals of Humanities and Social Sciences (expanded journals)"; in 2017, Journal of Guangdong Second Normal University (NATURAL SCIENCES) won the title of "Guangdong provincial characteristic science and Technology Journals".

   schools actively serve basic education and local economic and social development in Guangdong Province. We have built six affiliated schools and three education experimental areas with the local government, and accumulated rich experience in promoting the balanced development of basic education, especially in the rapid development of weak schools. The school has been undertaking the training task of basic education teachers and school (kindergarten) leaders. It is the pilot project base for principals of the Ministry of education, the national training plan base for teachers of the Ministry of education, and the Guangdong Provincial primary and secondary school teacher development center.

   the school actively expands international cultural and educational exchanges and cooperation. In recent years, it has signed memoranda of cooperation or school running agreements with more than 10 foreign universities, including the University of Western Sydney in Australia, the University of Nebraska in Omaha, the University of Sunderland, Newman, Southeast Asia University in Cambodia and Pingtung University in Taiwan. At the same time, it has carried out joint school running projects of "3 + 1" and "3 + 1 + 1" credit mutual recognition mode, expanding the scope of cooperation with foreign universities The cultivation of applied talents with international vision.

   the development goals of the school during the 13th Five Year Plan period are: based in Guangdong, facing the grassroots, full-time general undergraduate education has a great influence in the province, teacher education has a certain popularity in the country, professional master's degree education has made a major breakthrough, international cooperation in running schools has made new progress, the construction of modern university governance system and the construction of smart campus has been basically completed, and become an appropriate scale and characteristic university Distinctive application-oriented universities.

   (updated April 2018)

Guangdong Second Normal University

Nature of institutions: public

Education level: General Undergraduate

Location: Guangdong

Admission telephone: 020-34113327 34113555

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Admission website: http://www.gdei.edu.cn

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