Dr. Zhou Chengping
Vice-Present of Jiangsu Institute of Education
Abstract
Since China’s reformation and opening to the outside world, education has made remarkable strives in its development. It has played an active role in the motivation of economic construction and social development. But in the transition from a planned economy to a challenging market economy, people demand and expect more from our education systems; however, there are significant lingering problems associated with outdated education concepts, the bureaucratic educational systems, and the failure of previous educational strategies. In this writer’s opinion, one of the most important and urgent challenges of the 21St century is to comb carefully, deal with these problems seriously, and overthrow and solve them actively with scientific concepts.
The ten problems are presented below:
- 1. Inconsistent development in basic education;
- 2. Stagnation of education development in the countryside;
- 3. Commercialized substandard education;
- 4. Bureaucratic administration of principals and teachers;
- 5. Excessive profit-orientation of private education;
- 6. Education assessments are not consistent with human values;
- 7. Excessive concern about knowledge learning while neglecting ability training;
- 8. Unrealistic expectations and emphasis on new curriculum;
- 9. Difficulties of involving children from moving-population families;
- 10. The professional ambition of educators overshadows the true goals of education.
Biography
Zhou Chengping was born in September 1956 in Nanjing, Jiangsu province while his ancestral home is ShuYang county. After graduating from high school he went to live and work in a production team in the country. In March of 1978, he was admitted to NanJing Normal Institute (Nanjing Normal University of today) and pursued his studies in the Chinese Department He graduated in January 1982 and was assigned as a teacher in the Chinese Department of JiangSu Institute of Education. Now he is entitled as the vice president of JiangSu Institute of Education and the Institute of Educational Science of JiangSu Province, director、 professor, and literature doctor of JiangSu Training Center for Middle School Teachers, and tutor of graduate students of Nanjing Normal University.
In school affairs, Zhou Chengping is charged principally with teaching affairs, teachers’ training, and external communication of the institute. He also works as executive director of the National Academy of Teacher Education, director of JiangSu Higher Education Academy, and member of an expert group that is responsible for those pedagogical training for school students who want to apply for a regular college course. In the research of educational science, he has presided over the teacher-training theme “Research of Junior and Senior Middle School Teacher’s training standard in the 21st Century” under the Pedagogical Department of the Ministry of Education, the further education theme “Evaluation and Research of Middle and Essential School Teachers’ Further Education” and the themes “Teachers’ Self-taught Exams and the Construction of Middle and Essential School Teachers’ Group in JiangSu Province” “The Development Tendency of Modern Teacher Education and the Construction of Middle and Essential School Teachers’ Group in JiangSu Province” under the research and programming plan of JiangSu educational science.
In his own development of the specialty, Zhou Chengping works mainly on teaching and researching modern and contemporary Chinese literature and art. He is nominated as vice president of the National Academy of Mao Zedong Literary and Artistic Thought, executive director and secretary general of Modern Literature Academy of the Country’s Institute of Education System, vice president of Lu Xun Academy of JiangSu Province, director of China’s Modern Literature Academy and director of China’s Contemporary Literature Academy, etc.
By now, Zhou Chengping has published more than 110 treatises and theses on various subjects.
For more information, inquire at the official site of Jiangsu Institute of Education
Dr. Zhou Chengping
Vice-Present of JiangSu Institute of Education. Institute of Educational Science of JiangSu Province, director, professor, and literature doctor of JiangSu Training Center for Middle School Teachers, and tutor of graduate students of Nanjing Normal University.
