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With the comprehensive popularization of basic education, improving quality has become the primary goal of Chinese basic education development. “To improve the quality of education, the key is to improve the quality of teachers” (Yuan Xun and Yuguang Tang 2011). In order to cultivate high-quality and professional teachers, China encouraged comprehensive university to cultivate and train teachers. Three types of university have been formed in the process of Chinese universitization of teacher education. The first is endogenous comprehensive university, which has no previous normal education foundation, in order to expand the coverage of disciplines, to enhance their social service function, and to set up school of education or school of teacher education to engage in teacher education (Xianfeng Zhou and Yiping Zhong 2003). The second is merged comprehensive university, which is formed by merging normal college and non-normal college. The third is normal university; normal...

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  1. School of Education, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China

    Jun-Ren Liu & Pei-pei Jin

  2. School of Continuing Education, Zhengzhou Preschool Education College, Zhengzhou, China

    Ying Gan

  3. College of Teacher Education, Capital Normal University, Beijing, China

    Xiao-Wei Kang

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  1. Academy of Globalization and Education Policy, School of Education, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, Henan, China

    Tien-hui Chiang

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Liu, JR., Gan, Y., Kang, XW., Jin, Pp. (2019). Chinese Endogenous Comprehensive Universities in the Teacher Education Market, Role and Function of. In: Peters, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Teacher Education. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-1179-6_8-1

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