TheSchool ofEducationScience of Hunan Normal University is located near the beautiful peach lake, which is known as "the gateway of Hunan Normal University".The predecessor of the School, theeducation department of National Normal College, was founded in 1938. In 1995,under the overall arrangement ofour university,theDepartment ofEducationmerged with theAudio-visualTeachingDepartment to set up theSchool ofEducationScience of Hunan Normal University. And then, theDepartment ofEducation of HunanEducationInstitute joined in it in 2000.
TheSchool hasfive departments (Department ofEducation,Department ofPsychology,Department ofPreschoolEducation,Department ofEducationalTechnology, andDepartment ofSpecialEducation), four research institutes(Institute ofEducation,Institute ofPsychology,Institute ofCurriculum andTeaching, andInstitute ofHigherEducation), and one research center(ElementaryEducationCurriculumReformResearchCenter of China's Education Ministry). The school offersseven different undergraduate majors(Education, Public Service Administration,PreschoolEducation, EducationalTechnology, Psychology, AppliedPsychology, and SpecialEducation), twomaster’s degree programs for first-level disciplines of education and psychology ( covers13 master’s degree programs for second-level disciplines), onedoctoral degree programs for first-level Education discipline, onedoctoral degree programs for second-levelpsychology disciplines,onerotating post-doctoral posts of education,andonerotating post-doctoral posts of psychology. TheCurriculum andTeaching is 211 Project national key discipline ,the Education is national level characteristic major,the Psychology is provincial level characteristic major,both the Education andPsychology are the key disciplines of Hunan province. The "Teaching andResearchInstitute " was appraised as theexcellentteaching and research institute of Hunan province,the"Cognitive andHumanBehaviorLaboratory" is the key laboratory of Hunan province,the"EducationalScience andTechnologyLaboratory " is the demonstration laboratory of basic courses in Hunan province.
Many famous educationist have been taught here. Mr. Liao Shicheng, the famous modern educationist and the founder of the National Normal College, is the first department director. Famous educationist Gao Jue, Liu Fonian, Zhu Youhuan, Yang Rongguo, Chen Xiaochan, Peng Zuzhi, Yang Jiben and so on, all of them have been taught here. Professor Zhang Chuting is the leader of Education discipline, who is known as "the most outstanding and most effective achievement schoolmaster in China today". At present, there are 97 full-time teachers in theschool, including about 28 professors and 40 associate professors, 74 teachers with doctoral degree ,the proportion of senior teachers is 72%, 63 teachers with doctoral qualifications, accounting for 65% of the total number of teachers. Among the current teachers, therehaveoneHunanexcellent social science experts, 2Hunanyoung experts,2teachers enjoy the government's special allowances,2teachers are academic leaders of Hunan’s Universities, 13teachers areHunanyoung backbone teachers. One teacher was selectedthe "NewCenturyTalentSupportProgram of China's Education Ministry",3teachers were selected "HunanHundredPeopleProject",6teachers were selectedthe “NewCentury121TalentProject of Hunan province”.
The school gained a lot of achievements in teaching and scientific research. Academic research is considered to be the life of the school, reform is the motive force of the development of theSchool, and cultivating the characteristics of the discipline is the direction in the future. At present, there have 11 national level research projects are being carried out, 80 provincial and above level research projects, 7 research results were awarded by the national government, 20 research results were awarded by provincial government. There have 4 national top-quality courses, 4 provincial top-quality courses, 14 school top-quality courses. There have More than 2000 students, among them, about1100 graduate students and 900 undergraduate students, at least 60 students were awarded the National Awards.
There have many advanced facilities and academic exchanges with other schools in and out of the province. TheSchool has a teaching building more than 10000 square meters, in which there are many teaching facilities, includingAcademicReportHall,MicroteachingRoom,MultimediaTeaching,EducationalTechnologyLaboratory,PsychologicalLaboratory,Teachers CAICoursewareMakingRoom,NaturalObservationRoom forChildren,PhysiqueTrainingRoom,ArtEducationRoom,PianoPracticeRoom, and a library information center with more than 30 thousand volumes of books, journals and magazines. In addition, theSchool pay attention to promote broad cooperation and exchange, having signed cooperative agreements with nearly 50 famous universities and research institutes at home and abroad,and exchanging students through cooperative programs. TheSchool has more than 80 teaching practice bases distributingaround the excellent primary,secondary schools and kindergartensof Hunan province. Up till now,theSchoolalsopay attention todevelop cooperative education with about 20 vocational colleges, and provide high quality education training for 10 other provinces.