Abstract:

Directional training is a channel to supplement teachers for rural primary schools, which is gradually rising in recent years and has achieved some positive results. This study constructs a new explanation mode of institutional change based on the institution change theory in new institutional economics and the sociological institutionalism theory. It is found that there is an inherent relation between the generation of rural primary school teacher directional training policyand the elimination of the secondary normal education. Specifically, in the beginning of the transition from the planned economy to market economy in China, the legitimacy mechanism mainly leaded to the abolition of the secondary normal education which is not only the disappearance of the secondary education level of normal education, but also the fading of the teacher-training mode and institutional advantages of the secondary normal education. As a result, the supplementary problem of primary school teachers in rural areas is becoming more and more prominent. Under the background that the socialist market economy system has gradually been established and improved, the social environment has tended to be stable and the organizational microenvironment has been more active, the efficiency mechanism becomes the main motive force of the institutional change, and the efficiency mechanism plays an important role in the generation of the policy of directional training of rural teachers. The reason why the directional training is regarded as an efficient supplementary approach of rural teachers, to a large extent, is due to the path dependence in the process of institutional change.

Key words: secondary normal education, rural primary school teacher directional training policy, the legitimacy mechanism, the efficiency mechanism