The College of Educational Science of Shaanxi Normal University , originally founded on the department of education, psychology and educational research institutes in 1997, consists of Department of Psychology, Department of Education, Department of Pre-School Education, the Educational Research Institute of Shaanxi Normal University, ,the Research Institute for Educational administration, the Research Institute for Psychology and Behavior of Shaanxi Normal University, the Research Institute for Educational Policy and laws in West China of Shaanxi Normal University, the Teacher Education and Primary Education research Center of Northwest China relies on it. Among its 80 staff members, there are 11 professors, 26 associate professors and 20 lecturers etc,. 34 of them have master degree and 30 of them are either doctors or doctoral candidates.The Dean is Prof. Xuqun You, The Secretary of the Party in the college is Prof. Hongwu Li. 

The college focuses on undergraduate programs and master programs. It offers 6 undergraduate programs, including Pedagogy, Educational Management, General Psychology, Applied Psychology, Pre-school Education and Special Education, and 7 master programs, including Education Principles, History of Education, Basic Psychology, Applied Psychology, Educational Economics and Administration, Curriculum and Teaching Theory, school management and pre-school education.  It also offers doctoral programs, including Education Principles, Basic Psychology and Theory of Curriculum and Teaching. Among them, Pedagogy distinguishes itself in Shaanxi province and the curriculums, Modern Education and History of Education are the classic courses at the province level. Now there are 648 undergraduates, 358 master candidates and 24 doctor candidates in our college.

The college has been put a great effort on the educational research and severed elementary and secondary education. It has undertaken 45 state- or provincial-level projects of scientific research, compiled and published 200 academic writings and textbooks and published 800 academic papers. All these remarkable scientific achievements bring the college a very good social effect and economic results. At the same time the college tries her best to offer a complete and flexible continuing teaching training programs for in-service teacher training and profession development in Shaanxi province. More than 20,000 in-service teachers has involved in these programs.

The well-equipped laboratories and some other equipments, such as the model labs for applied psychology, the mini-analysis teaching system, the multi-media lab, piano rooms, dancing hall for teaching are supplied for teaching and research in the college.

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