

Guangdong University of Education is a general undergraduate university in Guangdong Province. Its predecessor was Guangdong Education Administration university founded in 1955, and its name was changed to Guangdong Education university in 1960. In the same year, Guangdong Industrial and Agricultural Normal university was merged into it. In 1982, it was identified as a provincial adult normal undergraduate university, and began to offer adult normal undergraduate education in the same year, general junior university education in 1985, and general undergraduate education from 1990 to 2008. In 2010, approved by the Ministry of Education, it was restructured into an ordinary undergraduate university and renamed Guangdong No. 2 Teachers university. In 2014, it obtained the right to grant bachelor's degree, passed the undergraduate teaching qualification assessment of the Ministry of Education in 2018, was approved as a master's degree project construction unit in 2021, and was selected as the second batch of pilot universities of the Ministry of Education to promote the construction of teachers in the same year.
Type orientation: teaching application-oriented ordinary undergraduate universitys.
Level orientation: mainly undergraduate education, moderately carry out adult education, and actively carry out primary and secondary university principals and teachers training.
Subject orientation: to teacher education, moderate development of non-teacher majors.
Service orientation: Based in Guangdong, facing the Bay Area, radiating the whole country, serving basic education and serving local economic development.
university philosophy: Born because of basic education, prosper because of basic education, and seek for basic education.
university features: Focusing on "primary (university) children (preuniversity education)", leading the reform and development of basic education.
Training goal orientation: to cultivate "personality sound, wide cultural knowledge, professional foundation solid, professional skills strong" applied talents.
The University is located in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, with two campuses in Haizhu and Huadu, covering a total area of 535 mu with a total floor area of 430,000 square meters. The total value of teaching and research equipment assets is 169 million yuan. The university has a collection of more than 1.44 million paper books and 740,000 electronic books. It has 19 teaching departments and 22 research institutes, with 15,932 full-time undergraduate students and 46,499 adult students.
The university has 882 full-time teachers, including 219 with senior titles and 805 with doctor's and master's degrees. At present, 11 people have been awarded as "Members of the Higher Education Teaching Steering Committee of the Ministry of Education", "Famous Teachers in Higher Education Institutions of Guangdong Province", "Excellent Party Workers of Guangdong Province", "Outstanding Communist Party Members of Guangdong Province", "Youth Cultural Talents of Guangdong Special Support Program", "Representative inheritors of the Intangible Cultural Heritage Chaozhou Music Project of Guangdong Province", "Outstanding Teachers of Southern Guangdong Province" and "Advanced Educators of Southern Guangdong Province". And other honorary titles. The university has 1 director training expert of the Ministry of Education, 14 experts of the National expert database of the "National training" plan, and 3 provincial inspectors. There are 4 doctoral supervisors and 21 master supervisors from other universities.
The university offers 45 undergraduate majors, covering 9 disciplines including economics, law, education, literature, history, science, engineering, management and art. It has 2 state-level first-class undergraduate major construction points, 1 state-level first-class undergraduate course, 5 provincial first-class undergraduate major construction points, 15 provincial first-class undergraduate courses (including curriculum ideological and political demonstration courses), 2 teachers' professional second-level certification by the Ministry of Education, and won 5 first prizes and 4 second prizes in the recent 2 Provincial education and teaching achievement Awards. It was approved as "Demonstration Base of Innovation and Entrepreneurship of small and micro Enterprises in Guangdong Province", "Pilot unit of Mass maker Space in Guangdong Province" and "designated institution of entrepreneurship training in Guangzhou City".
The university has made great progress in discipline construction and scientific research innovation. There are three provincial key disciplines, namely education, mathematics and ecology. It has been approved 2 social science research bases in Guangdong Province, 1 Decision consulting research base in Guangdong Province, 7 key scientific research platforms in Guangdong universities, and 3 innovation teams in Guangdong universities. In the past five years, the university has obtained 241 scientific research projects above the provincial level, including 20 national projects; The faculty has published more than 500 high-level academic papers; Published more than 70 academic works; More than 100 intellectual property achievements such as authorized patents and computer software Copyrights have been obtained; Won the second prize of Natural Science Award of Guangdong Province. The Journal of Guangdong Second Normal university, sponsored by the university, has been awarded "National Excellent Social Science Journal of Universities" for six consecutive years.
The university actively serves the basic education of Guangdong Province and the local economic and social development. In cooperation with Jiangmen City Education Bureau, Foshan Education Bureau, Zhuhai Education Bureau, Guangdong Vocational university of Foreign Languages and Arts, and Zhuhai City Vocational and Technical university, the university has actively established a national teacher Education Innovation Experimental Zone. In cooperation with the governments of Guangzhou, Shantou, Foshan and other places, we have built 13 affiliated universitys; In cooperation with Baiyun District, Guangzhou, the Experimental Education Group of Guangdong University of Education was established as the first rural education group covering primary, junior and senior high universitys in Guangdong Province. The university has made bold exploration in promoting the high-quality and balanced development of basic education, especially the rapid quality improvement of weak universitys, and has accumulated rich experience. In 2022, the Experimental Education Group of Guangdong Second Normal university and the Experimental Education Group of Longhu Affiliated Middle university of Guangdong Second Normal university were selected as the second batch of high-quality basic education groups by the Guangdong Provincial Department of Education; In 2023, Nansha Zhujiang university affiliated to Guangdong Second Normal university was selected as the nurturing and founding unit of Guangzhou Education Internationalization Window university.
The university is the principal pilot project base of the Ministry of Education and the national teacher training plan base of the Ministry of Education. Guangdong Primary and Secondary university Party Building Research Base, Guangdong Primary and Secondary university Teachers Development Center, Guangdong Primary and Secondary university Principals Training Center, Guangdong Primary and Secondary university Moral Education Research and Guidance Center, Guangdong Primary and Secondary university Teachers university-based Research Project Office, Guangdong Primary and Secondary university Teachers Information Technology Application Ability Improvement Project Office 6 provincial institutions are located in our university. The training of primary and secondary university teachers has an important position and significant influence in the province. According to incomplete statistics, more than 80% of the principals of primary and secondary universitys in Guangdong Province have participated in the principal training in our university, and more than 50% of the backbone teachers have participated in the teacher training in our university.
Long time, wind and rain. 68 years of university journey, the university has undergone several changes, a number of changes in its name, but the original intention has not changed, the torch is passed on, "born because of basic education, should be basic education and xing, and seek for basic education" the university concept is inherited.
Vicissitudes of life, spring and autumn. Based on a new starting point and forging ahead on a new journey, the university will uphold the university motto of "advancing morality and learning, being a model for teachers" and strive to create a high-level applied normal university with outstanding characteristics of teacher education and outstanding advantages in serving basic education.
Guangdong University of Education is a general undergraduate university in Guangdong Province. Its predecessor was Guangdong Education Administration university founded in 1955, and its name was changed to Guangdong Education university in 1960. In the same year, Guangdong Industrial and Agricultural Normal university was merged into it. In 1982, it was identified as a provincial adult normal undergraduate university, and began to offer adult normal undergraduate education in the same year, general junior university education in 1985, and general undergraduate education from 1990 to 2008. In 2010, approved by the Ministry of Education, it was restructured into an ordinary undergraduate university and renamed Guangdong No. 2 Teachers university. In 2014, it obtained the right to grant bachelor's degree, passed the undergraduate teaching qualification assessment of the Ministry of Education in 2018, was approved as a master's degree project construction unit in 2021, and was selected as the second batch of pilot universities of the Ministry of Education to promote the construction of teachers in the same year.
Type orientation: teaching application-oriented ordinary undergraduate universitys.
Level orientation: mainly undergraduate education, moderately carry out adult education, and actively carry out primary and secondary university principals and teachers training.
Subject orientation: to teacher education, moderate development of non-teacher majors.
Service orientation: Based in Guangdong, facing the Bay Area, radiating the whole country, serving basic education and serving local economic development.
university philosophy: Born because of basic education, prosper because of basic education, and seek for basic education.
university features: Focusing on "primary (university) children (preuniversity education)", leading the reform and development of basic education.
Training goal orientation: to cultivate "personality sound, wide cultural knowledge, professional foundation solid, professional skills strong" applied talents.
The University is located in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, with two campuses in Haizhu and Huadu, covering a total area of 535 mu with a total floor area of 430,000 square meters. The total value of teaching and research equipment assets is 169 million yuan. The university has a collection of more than 1.44 million paper books and 740,000 electronic books. It has 19 teaching departments and 22 research institutes, with 15,932 full-time undergraduate students and 46,499 adult students.
The university has 882 full-time teachers, including 219 with senior titles and 805 with doctor's and master's degrees. At present, 11 people have been awarded as "Members of the Higher Education Teaching Steering Committee of the Ministry of Education", "Famous Teachers in Higher Education Institutions of Guangdong Province", "Excellent Party Workers of Guangdong Province", "Outstanding Communist Party Members of Guangdong Province", "Youth Cultural Talents of Guangdong Special Support Program", "Representative inheritors of the Intangible Cultural Heritage Chaozhou Music Project of Guangdong Province", "Outstanding Teachers of Southern Guangdong Province" and "Advanced Educators of Southern Guangdong Province". And other honorary titles. The university has 1 director training expert of the Ministry of Education, 14 experts of the National expert database of the "National training" plan, and 3 provincial inspectors. There are 4 doctoral supervisors and 21 master supervisors from other universities.
The university offers 45 undergraduate majors, covering 9 disciplines including economics, law, education, literature, history, science, engineering, management and art. It has 2 state-level first-class undergraduate major construction points, 1 state-level first-class undergraduate course, 5 provincial first-class undergraduate major construction points, 15 provincial first-class undergraduate courses (including curriculum ideological and political demonstration courses), 2 teachers' professional second-level certification by the Ministry of Education, and won 5 first prizes and 4 second prizes in the recent 2 Provincial education and teaching achievement Awards. It was approved as "Demonstration Base of Innovation and Entrepreneurship of small and micro Enterprises in Guangdong Province", "Pilot unit of Mass maker Space in Guangdong Province" and "designated institution of entrepreneurship training in Guangzhou City".
The university has made great progress in discipline construction and scientific research innovation. There are three provincial key disciplines, namely education, mathematics and ecology. It has been approved 2 social science research bases in Guangdong Province, 1 Decision consulting research base in Guangdong Province, 7 key scientific research platforms in Guangdong universities, and 3 innovation teams in Guangdong universities. In the past five years, the university has obtained 241 scientific research projects above the provincial level, including 20 national projects; The faculty has published more than 500 high-level academic papers; Published more than 70 academic works; More than 100 intellectual property achievements such as authorized patents and computer software Copyrights have been obtained; Won the second prize of Natural Science Award of Guangdong Province. The Journal of Guangdong Second Normal university, sponsored by the university, has been awarded "National Excellent Social Science Journal of Universities" for six consecutive years.
The university actively serves the basic education of Guangdong Province and the local economic and social development. In cooperation with Jiangmen City Education Bureau, Foshan Education Bureau, Zhuhai Education Bureau, Guangdong Vocational university of Foreign Languages and Arts, and Zhuhai City Vocational and Technical university, the university has actively established a national teacher Education Innovation Experimental Zone. In cooperation with the governments of Guangzhou, Shantou, Foshan and other places, we have built 13 affiliated universitys; In cooperation with Baiyun District, Guangzhou, the Experimental Education Group of Guangdong University of Education was established as the first rural education group covering primary, junior and senior high universitys in Guangdong Province. The university has made bold exploration in promoting the high-quality and balanced development of basic education, especially the rapid quality improvement of weak universitys, and has accumulated rich experience. In 2022, the Experimental Education Group of Guangdong Second Normal university and the Experimental Education Group of Longhu Affiliated Middle university of Guangdong Second Normal university were selected as the second batch of high-quality basic education groups by the Guangdong Provincial Department of Education; In 2023, Nansha Zhujiang university affiliated to Guangdong Second Normal university was selected as the nurturing and founding unit of Guangzhou Education Internationalization Window university.
The university is the principal pilot project base of the Ministry of Education and the national teacher training plan base of the Ministry of Education. Guangdong Primary and Secondary university Party Building Research Base, Guangdong Primary and Secondary university Teachers Development Center, Guangdong Primary and Secondary university Principals Training Center, Guangdong Primary and Secondary university Moral Education Research and Guidance Center, Guangdong Primary and Secondary university Teachers university-based Research Project Office, Guangdong Primary and Secondary university Teachers Information Technology Application Ability Improvement Project Office 6 provincial institutions are located in our university. The training of primary and secondary university teachers has an important position and significant influence in the province. According to incomplete statistics, more than 80% of the principals of primary and secondary universitys in Guangdong Province have participated in the principal training in our university, and more than 50% of the backbone teachers have participated in the teacher training in our university.
Long time, wind and rain. 68 years of university journey, the university has undergone several changes, a number of changes in its name, but the original intention has not changed, the torch is passed on, "born because of basic education, should be basic education and xing, and seek for basic education" the university concept is inherited.
Vicissitudes of life, spring and autumn. Based on a new starting point and forging ahead on a new journey, the university will uphold the university motto of "advancing morality and learning, being a model for teachers" and strive to create a high-level applied normal university with outstanding characteristics of teacher education and outstanding advantages in serving basic education.