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The predecessor of Guangdong Second Normal University was the Guangdong Educational Administration Institute founded in 1955. It was renamed Guangdong Institute of Education in 1960. In the same year, Guangdong Normal University of Industry and Agriculture was merged. It ceased operation in 1970, and the main body was transferred to Xinxing County of Zhaoqing Prefecture, and Zhaoqing Normal School and Zhaoqing Normal College were established successively. It was reopened in 1978, and in 1982 it was identified as a provincial adult normal undergraduate college. In the same year, it began to hold adult normal undergraduate education. In 1985, it began to hold general college education, and from 1990 to 2008, it held general undergraduate education. Approved by the Ministry of Education in 2010, it was restructured into an ordinary undergraduate college and renamed as Guangdong Second Normal University. It is an ordinary undergraduate college in Guangdong Province. Obtained the right to confer a bachelor's degree in 2014. Passed the qualification assessment of undergraduate teaching work by the Ministry of Education in 2017.
school is located in Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province, with two campuses, Haizhu and Huadu. There are 15 research institutions including the School of Education and other 16 teaching schools and departments, and the Basic Education Research Center. There are 37 undergraduate majors in education, literature, science, engineering, law, history, management, art and economics. 9 disciplines including learning. There are three provincial-level characteristic disciplines: pedagogy, mathematics and ecology. There are more than 11,000 full-time undergraduate students.
There are 859 faculty members in the school, including 498 full-time teachers. Among the full-time teachers, there are 193 senior titles, accounting for 38.76% of the total number of teachers; 35.9% are teachers with doctoral degrees. The school has more than 30 people successively won the honorary titles of "National Model Teacher", "National Excellent Teacher", "Nan Yue Outstanding Teacher", "Nan Yue Advanced Educator", "Nan Yue Educational Rookie", "Guangdong Youth Cultural Talent" and other honorary titles. There are 1 national school inspector (ninth session), 2 provincial school inspector consultants, and 4 provincial school inspectors; 1 member of the national expert group on basic education curriculum reform; 1 expert training for school (park) heads of the Ministry of Education; "National Training" plan 9 experts from the national expert database; 1 inheritor of provincial intangible cultural heritage; 8 master tutors from other universities.
The school takes the leadership of the reform and development of basic education as its mission, and its motto is "to be a teacher by virtue of studying in morals". Adhere to the school-running philosophy of "equal importance to democracy and science, and the unity of humanities and nature", adhering to the fine tradition of "pursuing the truth, paying attention to people's livelihood, and taking responsibility", educate teachers and students to "learn to be gentlemen and be good at the world", and strive to cultivate a "healthy personality and culture" Applied talents with extensive knowledge, solid professional foundation, and strong professional skills.
According to the development trend of higher education, the school actively implements standardized development, connotation development, characteristic development and innovative development strategies, establishes a quality school awareness, accelerates transformation and development, unswervingly follows the path of running a school with characteristics, and gradually improves the quality of talent training.
The school establishes the "teacher-oriented" concept, implements the strategy of "talent to strengthen the school", and speeds up the construction of the teaching team; establishes the "student-oriented teaching" concept, innovates the talent training model, fully expands students' learning autonomy, and promotes students in an all-round way Grow into talent. Our university’s undergraduate entrepreneurship incubation base was recognized as the "Guangdong Province Small and Micro Enterprise Innovation and Entrepreneurship Demonstration Base" by the Economic and Information Commission of Guangdong Province, and the "Building Space for Makerspace" was recognized as a "Pilot for Makerspace Space in Guangdong Province" by the Department of Science and Technology of Guangdong Province unit". In the past three years, students have won more than 1,800 awards in various national and provincial competitions; the initial employment rates of undergraduate graduates in 2016 and 2017 were 97.26% and 96.24%, respectively, which exceeded the average level of undergraduate colleges in the province.
The school attaches great importance to scientific research, and teachers use scientific research to promote teaching. Since the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan", the school has won 30 national-level scientific research projects such as natural science fund and social science fund, and 235 provincial and ministerial-level scientific research projects; published 2,410 academic papers (departments); obtained 2 provincial-level scientific research awards, and output at the same time A batch of results with certain influence. Teachers integrate their scientific research results into undergraduate education and talent training in the form of classroom teaching, college student innovation and entrepreneurship education, and second classrooms, so as to promote teaching through scientific research. "Journal of Guangdong Second Normal University" (Humanities and Social Sciences) was awarded the National Excellent Social Science Journals for four consecutive years, and was selected as "Chinese Humanities and Social Sciences Core Journals (Expanded Journals)"; in 2017, "Journal of Guangdong Second Normal University" (Natural Science) was awarded the title of "Guangdong Province Featured Sci-tech Journal".
The school actively serves the basic education and local economic and social development of Guangdong Province. It has built 6 affiliated schools and 3 educational experimental zones with the local government, and has accumulated rich experience in promoting the high-quality and balanced development of basic education, especially the rapid quality of weak schools. The school has been undertaking the training tasks of basic education teachers and school (park) principals. It is the base for the pilot project of the Ministry of Education, the base for the national training program for teachers of the Ministry of Education, and the Guangdong Provincial Primary and Secondary School Teacher Development Center. school.
The school actively expands international cultural and educational exchanges and cooperation. In recent years, more than 10 foreign (international) universities have signed agreements with Western Sydney University in Australia, the University of Nebraska Omaha in the United States, the University of Sunderland in the United Kingdom, Newman University in the United Kingdom, Southeast Asian University in Cambodia, and Pingtung University in Taiwan. The memorandum of cooperation or cooperation agreement on running a school, and the joint school project of "3+1" and "3+1+1" mutual recognition of credits have been carried out, which has expanded the cultivation of applied talents with an international perspective.
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 greater impact in the province, teacher education has a certain reputation in the country, major breakthroughs in professional master's education, international cooperation in running schools With new progress, the construction of a modern university governance system and the construction of a smart campus have been basically completed, and it has become an application-oriented general undergraduate university with appropriate scale and distinctive characteristics.