Author(s)

Yang Wu ¹, Chen Mali ¹, Xiang Kun ¹, Chen Xiaocui ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ College of Resources and Environmental Engineering, Guizhou Institute of Technology, Guiyang, China

Corresponding Author

Chen Xiaocui

ABSTRACT

At present, China is in the process of educational reform, and the higher education of universities must play its due role and keep pace with the times to adapt to the development of globalization. In order to improve the quality of higher education and realize the connotative development of higher education with local characteristics, high-quality university teachers are needed. But at present, in view of this problem, the domestic research is mostly from the system and technical level, ignoring the inherent initiative of people. At the present stage, the development of university teachers is generally inefficient, and the development of most university teachers is not free and comprehensive. This paper takes Huang Danian's team of teachers in Guizhou Institute of Technology as the research object, summarizes the problems faced by young teachers in local colleges and universities through questionnaires and Systematic Literature Review, takes Huang Danian's spirit as the guide, faces the dilemma of teachers'development in today's colleges and universities, tries to introduce the concept of mission consciousness, and explores the relationship between teachers' development and mission consciousness in local characteristic It tries to break through the dilemma of the development of university teachers from the internal causes of teachers, and promote the efficient, free and comprehensive development of university teachers.

KEYWORDS

Local colleges and universities, Sustainable development, Huang Danian spirit, Sense of mission, Questionnaire

CITE THIS PAPER

Yang Wu, Chen Mali, Xiang Kun, Chen Xiaocui, Exploration of Sustainable Development Approaches for Teachers in Local Characteristic Universities—Taking Huang Danian's Teacher Group at Guizhou Institute of Technology as an Example. Advances in Educational Technology and Psychology (2023) Vol. 7: 105-116. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/aetp.2023.071514.

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