The Ministry of Education (Institute of Educational Sciences) has 5 full-time teachers 1 person, including 5 professors (doctoral supervisor1person) and 8 associate professors. Among the teachers, 4 have doctoral degrees and 7 have master's degrees.
The education department (institute) has a master's degree in educational principles, offering four research directions: educational sociology, educational economics, basic education and early education, and a master's degree in curriculum and teaching theory. Ordinary senior high school undergraduates have a major in primary education; Adult higher education has education management specialty.
The Education Department (Institute) undertakes teaching tasks such as public pedagogy, classroom teaching behavior and training and class management, Guangzhou special education teacher training, Guangzhou primary and secondary school teachers and principals training, and also participates in the master of education professional degree program and the teaching and thesis guidance of university teachers. Pedagogy courses are key courses in Guangdong Province, excellent key courses in Guangzhou University and excellent courses. Pedagogy is a key supporting discipline in Guangzhou and also a key discipline in our school.
Department of Psychology (Institute of Social Psychology)
Guangzhou University has a long history of psychology. From 65438 to 0984, with the approval of the Ministry of Education, Professor Wu Jianglin was awarded the master's degree in Social Psychology, which is the first master's degree program in social psychology in China. In 2003, the merged Guangzhou University was awarded a master's degree in developmental and educational psychology. In the same year, two disciplines were awarded the second round of key disciplines of municipal universities in Guangzhou. In 2005, applied psychology became the authorized point of master's degree. In 2007, development and educational psychology was awarded as a provincial key supporting discipline in Guangdong Province, and was approved as a key research base of humanities and social sciences in Guangzhou the following year. 20 10 was officially approved as a master's degree authorization point for the first-level discipline of psychology. 20 1 1 discipline was approved as the key supporting discipline in Guangzhou, and 20 12 discipline became the dominant key first-class discipline in Guangdong province.
There are 25 teaching, scientific research and teaching assistants in the discipline, including professors 12, doctoral supervisors 5, associate professors 7 and teachers 17 with doctoral degrees, with an average age of 43. The leader of this subject is Professor YeHaoSheng. Professor YeHaoSheng is the dean of the School of Education of Guangzhou University, the director of the Research Center of Psychology and Brain Science of Guangzhou University, the winner of the special government allowance of the State Council, the vice chairman of the Chinese Psychological Society, the executive director of the International Association of Theoretical Psychology, the deputy editor of the Journal of Psychology and Exploratory Psychology, the member of the educational psychology evaluation group of the national educational science planning, the member of the fifth expert group of the National Postdoctoral Management Committee, the member of the psychology teaching steering committee of the Ministry of Education, the host of the national excellent course of psychohistory, and the first Yangcheng scholar's chief scientist project.
Up to 20 12, this discipline has published 8 papers in Journal of Psychology, 4 papers in SCI/SSCI and 28 monographs and teaching materials. At present, it undertakes 3 projects of National Natural Science Foundation, 3 projects of National Social Science Fund, 9 projects of Ministry of Education, provincial 1 1 projects and 23 other bureau-level vertical projects, with a total funding of 3.255 million yuan. He won 2 national outstanding achievement awards for educational research and 4 outstanding achievement awards for provincial philosophy society.
In terms of personnel training, this discipline has the right to award master's degrees in first-class disciplines, and it recruits about 30 graduate students in psychology and about 80 undergraduate students in two classes every year (from September 20 12, it recruits three undergraduate classes every year and adds social work majors). Psychology is an excellent course in Guangdong Province, and three national planning textbooks have been edited and published. By 20 12, we will have won the provincial teaching achievement award 1 item, the provincial education reform project 1 item, the municipal excellent textbook award 1 item and the municipal teaching achievement award 3 items. The experimental area of this subject is nearly 1000 square meters, and it has advanced scientific research and teaching equipment such as ERP, eye tracker and physiological polygraph, with total assets of nearly100000 yuan.
Psychology actively adapts to the needs of local economic, social and educational development in Guangdong Province, and strengthens applied research. In the past three years, the funds for horizontal projects have reached nearly 2 million yuan. In addition, the discipline also established the Guangzhou Mental Health Education Guidance (Training) Center and the Guangzhou Minors' Psychological Counseling and Assistance Center, which trained tens of thousands of primary and secondary school teachers in Guangzhou, provided psychological counseling and assistance to nearly 1000 minors, actively served the society and had a great social impact.
The Department of Psychology has two master's programs: developmental and educational psychology and applied psychology. The major of development and educational psychology began to enroll students in 2004, and there are two research directions: personality development and education, psychological counseling and education; Applied psychology began to enroll students in 2007, with three directions: human resource management, social psychology and psychological counseling.
Department of educational technology
The Department of Educational Technology currently has faculty members 13. Among them, there are 2 full professors, 5 associate professors, 6 lecturers (experimenters) and 2 tutors for master students. In 2002, the Department of Educational Technology began to recruit undergraduates majoring in educational technology, and in 2007, it began to recruit postgraduates.
The Department of Educational Technology has teaching and research sections of educational technology theory, computer education and distance education. There are multimedia teaching, TV program production, educational informatization, digital electroacoustic technology, online education, interactive media and distance education laboratories.
Educational technology specialty is a new specialty developed by the application of modern information technology and audio-visual education technology in the field of education. At present, there are educational technology (undergraduate) majors and information curriculum resource development and teaching (graduate) majors. Modern educational technology is an excellent course supported by the school, and educational technology is the key (supporting) subject of the school.
Since its establishment, the department has published nearly 10 textbooks and monographs, published nearly 100 papers, and produced more than 60 TV films and multimedia courseware. He has undertaken more than 20 teaching and research projects at the Ministry of Education, provincial, municipal and university levels, and won various national, provincial and municipal achievement awards 14.
Department of Preschool Education
There are 6 teachers in preschool education department, including 2 professors and 2 associate professors. Among the teachers, two have doctorates and three have master's degrees (two of them are studying for doctorates).
The Department of Preschool Education offers undergraduate education (preschool education), enrolls postgraduates of early education, undertakes the task of continuing education for key kindergarten teachers in Guangzhou, and trains multi-level (postgraduates and undergraduates) and multi-type (scientific research, teaching and management) preschool education talents for Guangzhou. This department is an undergraduate major in pedagogy (preschool education), and its training objectives are divided into three aspects: one is to train teachers for kindergarten teachers, kindergarten posts, teacher training schools and kindergartens; The second is to train children's workers for education administrative departments, women's federations, children's palaces, juvenile work committees and children's publishing institutions. The third is to send students for pre-school education and postgraduate education of related majors. The cultivation of undergraduate students in preschool education in our department relies on the strong faculty, the scientific research strength of the departments of education, psychology, educational technology, educational science research institute and social psychology research institute, as well as the master's degree in educational principles, development and educational psychology, which provides a strong guarantee for students to master extensive and solid educational science theories. The department has perfect hardware facilities for preschool teachers' training, including digital piano room, piano room, vocal room, dance room, Montessori room and preschool education observation research room. With the development of society and preschool education, the demand for preschool teachers' specialization is increasing, and the demand for undergraduate preschool teachers in Guangzhou will also increase. The training program of this department not only emphasizes educational science theory, but also practical skills, which will adapt to the new needs of kindergarten teachers in Guangzhou.