Nanjing Normal University of Special Education

Introduction to Nanjing Normal University of Special Education

Nanjing Normal University of Special Education (南京特殊教育师范学院) is located in Nanjing, the “capital of fraternity”. It is the only independent college in the country that specializes in training special education teachers, and also specializes in the training of disabled higher education and disabled professionals. College. The school was founded by the Ministry of Education in 1982 and supported by UNICEF. It was originally named “Nanjing Special Education Teachers School”. It is the first middle school to train special education teachers in New China and is under the management of the Ministry of Education. The school was placed under the management of the People’s Government of Jiangsu Province in 1997. In 2002 it was upgraded to a tertiary institution and renamed as “Nanjing Special Education Vocational Technical College”. In 2009, it became a joint unit of the China Disabled Persons’ Federation and the People’s Government of Jiangsu Province. Approved by the Ministry of Education in 2013, the school plans to establish “Nanjing Special Education Teachers College”. In 2015 it was upgraded to an ordinary undergraduate college. The school is the national outstanding special education teacher training reform project unit, the first batch of China Disabled Persons’ Federation’s first batch of advanced integrated education pilot schools for disabled students, “National Vocational Training Base for Disabled Teachers for Teachers”, “China Braille Sign Language Promotion Service Center”, “Jiangsu Special Education Development Guidance Center “,” Jiangsu Special Education Teacher Training Center “,” Jiangsu Visually Impaired Personnel Education Examination Support Research Center “. The school has won the “National Advanced Unit for Special Education”, “National Standardization Model School for Language and Character”, “Civilized Unit in Jiangsu Province”, “Advanced Unit for Spiritual Civilization Construction in Jiangsu Province”, “Advanced Primary Party Organization in Jiangsu Universities” and “Jiangsu Province” Harmonious Campus of Colleges and Universities “and many other honorary titles.

Nanjing Normal University of Special Education currently has a main campus of Yanziji and a branch campus of Jiangning, covering an area of 501 acres. The main campus overlooks the towering Zhongshan in the south, the surging Yangtze River in the north, the magnificent Shogunate in the west, and beautiful Qixia in the east. The campus is full of green grass, blue trees and wide buildings, red walls and white walls with short posts and quiet ponds. The environment is beautiful and the facilities are complete. The total building area of the school building is 180,000 square meters, and the total value of teaching and scientific research equipment is 66 million yuan. The library holds 706,000 printed books, 15 types of digital resource databases, and holds more than 2.979 million electronic books. The collection structure is mainly for special education, the disabled, and humanities, among which the collection of Braille books ranks first among universities in the country. One. The school has 86 on-campus experiment (practice) rooms and 129 off-campus practice bases. “Special Children’s Rehabilitation Practice Education Center” and “Special Education Teachers’ Practice Education Center” are provincial experimental teaching and practice education centers. The laboratory of “Special Child Disorders and Intervention Techniques” is a provincial key construction laboratory.

Nanjing Normal University of Special Education has built China’s first educational special historical museum, the China Special Education Museum, which has more than 2,300 objects and documents of special education, including the General History Museum, Literature Museum, Technology Museum, Experience Museum, Philatelic Hall for the Disabled, Film and Television Hall.

The school has a special education college (provincial special education development engineering guidance center), a school of education science (education and teaching practice center), a school of rehabilitation science, a school of music and dance, a school of language, a school of mathematics and information science, and a school of management (accessibility School of Management), School of Fine Arts and Design (Sunshine College), Marxism College, College of Physical Education and School of Continuing Education (Office of Jiangsu Special Education Teacher Training Center), offering a total of 38 undergraduate and college majors involving education , Literature, medicine, science, management, engineering, art, etc.

Nanjing Normal University of Special Education has 2 provincial higher education teaching achievement awards. “Education” and “Public Management” were approved as the key construction disciplines of the “Thirteenth Five-Year Plan” province. The special education major is the first-phase construction project of the brand specialty construction project of Jiangsu universities. Undertook the Ministry of Education outstanding special education teacher training plan project. There are 2 national-level quality resource sharing courses and 2 provincial-level online open courses. There are 3 national planning textbooks and 6 provincial key textbooks. It has a national virtual simulation experimental teaching platform, a key university construction laboratory in Jiangsu, a philosophy and social science research base in a provincial college, and a humanities and social science out-of-school research base in a provincial college. The school jointly develops graduate education with Nanjing Normal University and Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications. In recent years, the school has undertaken more than 20 national self-study funds, national social science funds, humanities and social science funds of the Ministry of Education, and key topics of education planning. It has undertaken and completed major and key topics of the Ministry of Education, the National Language Commission, and the China Disabled Persons’ Federation. For the rest, as the main completion unit, the National Standards for Compulsory Education Deaf School Curriculum Standards and Professional Standards for Special Education Teachers have been developed. A number of research results have been adopted by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and China Disabled Persons’ Federation.

Nanjing Normal University of Special Education currently has 7,383 full-time students (including 424 disabled college students). The proportion of full-time teachers with senior professional and technical positions reached 53.67%, and 81.64% had master’s degree or above. One person enjoys the special government allowance of the State Council, one person is a national candidate for the New Century Multi-million Talent Project, one is the second batch of national “Ten Thousand Talent Program” leading talents, and a cultural master of the Central Propaganda Department and “four batches” of talents1 Person, 1 candidate for the New Century Excellent Talents Support Program of the Ministry of Education, 3 young and middle-aged experts with outstanding contributions at the provincial and ministerial levels, 2 provincial teaching teachers, 5 provincial outstanding educators, and high-level talents of the “six major talent peaks” of the province 5 trainees, 20 trainees of the second and third levels of the “333 High-level Talent Training Project” of the province, 10 trainees of young and middle-aged academic leaders of the “Qinglan Project” of the province, and outstanding young backbones of the “Qinglan Project” of the province 28 teachers were trained.

Since its establishment 37 years ago, the school has always adhered to the school’s purpose of serving the Chinese special education and the cause of the disabled, adhering to the school philosophy of “fraternity and love,” based in Jiangsu, facing the whole country, connecting the world, and vigorously implementing “characteristic development, connotative development, integration “Development, open development” four strategies, focusing on strengthening special education, rehabilitation education, bright integration education, training for the management of disabled people’s undertakings, and training for special education schools and management and service institutions for the disabled. With more than 20,000 professionals, Tao Liman is praised as “the cradle of Chinese special education teacher training”. (Updated to November 7, 2019)

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