At the beginning of the establishment of the college, the founder put forward a completely different view from the modern educational trend of thought. On the basis of integrating humanitarian thoughts and scientific methods, the founder believes that successful teaching depends not only on professional teachers' mastery of teaching materials, teaching methods and professional knowledge, but also on professional teachers' understanding of students' most effective learning conditions. Based on this educational concept, the college launched an educational curriculum project integrating psychology and sociology at the beginning of 1890, becoming the first school in the United States to promote educational activities to social care. Subsequently, the college opened many professional courses, such as educational history, comparative education, educational management, educational economics, educational policy, clinical and consulting psychology, developmental psychology, cognitive psychology, curriculum research and so on. By the time Dewey joined the college at 65438-0904, the college had gained a good reputation in the field of educational research and teacher training in the United States.
Since its establishment, a large number of overseas famous masters and celebrities have taught or studied in Teachers College, which not only created many educational academic schools, but also won many national education firsts, accumulating profound academic and cultural connotations for the development of Teachers College. Among them, Dewey, a pragmatic philosopher, Thorndike, the pioneer of animal psychology experiments, Meng Lu, the founder of educational psychology system and connectionism psychology, Ke Qubo, an educational historian, Lawrence Cremin, the pioneer of progressive movement, Arthur Dow, the founder of educational ecology, Ma Kexin Green, an art educator, Condell, Beredi, the leading figures in comparative education, and Margaret, an anthropologist? Meade, humanistic psychologists Maslow, Rogers and Rogge May, clinical psychologist Albert Ellis, famous educational scholar and psychologist Li Huamei and so on. During the period of 1904- 1930, Dewey, together with a group of educational historians, comparative educators and educational psychologists, created the golden age of master Columbia. His most famous work, Democracy and Education, was also completed in this period, which created a famous pragmatic educational philosophy system. Historically, Columbia Master's College is also one of the earliest birthplaces in the history of American education. It is the cradle of nursing education in the United States, the first social nursing to integrate psychology and sociology into teacher education and promote educational activities, the first institution in the world to offer comparative education courses and establish the Association for Comparative and International Education, and the first curriculum and teaching department in the United States.
Shortly after the establishment of Columbia Masters College, it launched an international development strategy with great foresight, especially the internationalization of the student team. Because of this, it is also closely linked with the development of modern education in China, and has a great impact on the development of education in China. According to statistics, in the first half of the 20th century alone, about 65,438+0,000 overseas students in China studied in normal universities. Among them, 45 students graduated from Guo Bingwen Teachers College and became the first doctor of education in China at 1 9 14, and received their doctorates at 1 950 when Fu Tongxian and Zhu Qixian graduated together. Most of these students who returned from their studies later entered the political, cultural and educational circles in China and became pioneers and founders in many fields. Many of these graduates are still famous today, such as Hu Shi, a master of Chinese studies, Tao Xingzhi, a people's educator, Chen Heqin, the father of pre-school education in China, Guo Bingwen, the first president of Southeast University, Jiang Menglin, the former president of Peking University, Li Huamei, the mother of English teaching in/Kloc-0 century China, etc. They are all powerful figures in modern China education. Organizational Characteristics and Social Capital As a private graduate school of education, masters College of Columbia University adheres to Dewey's educational philosophy that "education is the fundamental way of social progress and reform". After 100 years of continuous development and innovation, it has made great progress in all aspects, especially in the construction of organizational competitiveness and the development and accumulation of social capital, which has laid a solid foundation for its Excellence and world-class.