Yuan Zhenguo

Yuan Zhenguo is a well-known educationalist in China and the full professor of ECNU. He was once thedeputy director of Department of Teacher Education of Ministry of Education, the deputy director ofDepartment of Social Sciences of Ministry of Education, the director of National Institute of EducationSciences, the deputy director of the Leading Group Office for National Education System Reform andthe secretary-general of National Education Advisory Committee. He is now the dean of Faculty of Education of East China Normal University, the vice president of Chinese Education Society, the deputydirector of the Academic Committee of China Association of Higher Education, the deputy director ofChinese Society of Educational Development Strategy. He once made a speech themed by “Give Priority to the Development of Education and Build a StrongCountry with Rich Human Resource” at the 26th Collective Learning Meeting of the Political Bureau ofthe Central Committee.

As an education theory researcher, he is committed to building a new system of pedagogy. His bookContemporary Pedagogy, which has become the national textbook in hundreds of colleges and universities and he was honored the First Award of National Textbook Award for it. He is committed to transforming and popularizing the educational scientific research achievements. His book New EducationalIdeas, which has been reprinted for more than 20 times, is rated as China’s most popular bestseller in thefield of educational theory. In particular, he is committed to making the scientific research servedecision-making, improving the scientific level of education decision and pioneering to have developedstudy on educational policy. He has published many influential works, such as Theory on EducationReform, Confrontation and Integration: One Century of World Education Reform, Educational PolicyScience (the second prize of the First National Humanities and Social Sciences Research Achievementsfor Institutions of Higher Education), Changes of China’s Educational Policies, Bridging the Gap: A MajorProposition for China’s Educational Policy and The Great Revelation of Education Reform for LeapingMiddle-Income Countries Trap, etc. The Review on China’s Educational Policies, of which he is theeditor-in-chief, has been published for 15 years with widespread reputation overseas.