Author(s)

Xiao Kangshu ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ School of Liberal Arts, Zhaoqing University, Zhaoqing, Guangdong, 526061, China

Corresponding Author

Xiao Kangshu

ABSTRACT

The main difficulties encountered by interns from local normal universities in their volunteer teaching internships are excessive workloads leading to high pressure, generally harsh internship conditions and inconvenient living conditions, deficiencies in the interns' own abilities, low satisfaction with internships, and low willingness to remain as teachers in rural areas. The reasons for these difficulties are the contrast between urban sentiments and rural realities that cause psychological discomfort, the disparity between high expectations and low treatment in rural areas that lead to a sense of injustice, the lack of educational literacy and the gap formed by professional ideals that lead to a lack of professional confidence, and the lack of effective guidance during internships. Improvements in the volunteer teaching internships of local normal universities should involve several aspects: cultivating normal students' awareness of serving rural education at the grassroots level; improving the conditions for serving rural education to ensure the living needs of interns; strengthening teaching skills training and guidance before the internships of normal students; improving the construction and management of the internship system; and reasonably arranging internship tasks.

KEYWORDS

Local normal universities; Volunteer teaching practice; Dilemmas; Strategies

CITE THIS PAPER

Xiao Kangshu, Dilemmas and Strategies of Volunteer Teaching Internships in Local Normal Universities in China—Based on a Survey of Chinese Language and Literature (Normal) Major Interns at M College. Adult and Higher Education (2024) Vol. 6: 50-58. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/aduhe.2024.060108.

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