Profile
Major of Primary Education at Wenzhou University is based on the consolidation of the Department of Education of former Wenzhou Normal College, Rui’an Normal School (founded in 1942), and Pingyang Normal School (founded in 1943). Enjoying a long history and abundant education experience, it has been the center for training primary teachers for southern Zhejiang region. It is a Dominant Major of the 13th “five-year-plan” of higher education institutes in Zhejiang Province, a “13th five-year-plan teacher education innovation program” of Zhejiang Province, a Key Major of Wenzhou University, a Teaching Reform Pilot Zone of Zhejiang Province, and an Experimental Education Reform Zone of Zhejiang Province. It launched undergraduate programs in 2001, started to enroll “First Batch” undergraduate students since 2015, and has been authorized to confer Master Degree of Education.
Education Objectives
To cultivate master students’ professional competencies as a competent primary school teacher and/or researcher, such as professional knowledge, practical ability, professional commitment and so on.
Job Prospects
Primary School Teachers and Principals, Researchers and Staffs in Educational Administrations
Practical Teaching
There will be 10 weeks’ practical teaching in total for students, students need to go to primary schools in Term 5 (fall).
Duration
3 years.
Core Courses
Primary Education Measurement and Evaluation; Study of Primary Curriculum and Textbook; Research Methods of Primary and Secondary Education
After years of development, the quality of candidates in major of primary education and teachers’ teaching and research level have been consistently improving and this major has made outstanding development. In 2013, we ranked 12th in Grade A category of all majors of primary education of Chinese universities (Wu Shulian); in 2016 we ranked 13th among primary education major of 189 universities (Research Center for Chinese Science Evaluation (RCCSE), 2016 Evaluation Report of Chinese Universities and Disciplines). After more than ten years of hard work, we have made significant achievements and formed our own distinctive major characteristics.
