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About GNUE

Gwangju National University of Education (GNUE) is a hub for elementary education with a 90 year-old history and tradition. Faculty and staff with outstanding capabilities, together with the students, have devoted themselves to opening a new page in elementary education. GNUE is a family-like and humane education community that embraces and shares the difficulties of every member together. GNUE is a U-learning campus where traditional qualities are fused with up-to-date modern technology, allowing member to enjoy themselves everyday.

Now, we will not be complacent, but instead will take big leaps and make adequate transitions to build a new 100 year future for GNUE. GNUE is a university with a special purpose that strives to cultivate future leaders in elementary education who have big hearts, a good sense of the mission, and creativity. GNUE aim is not to cultivate teachers who wish merely to become worker bees and live predictable lives with just basic knowledge, but to cultivate those who will become devoted future educators with big hearts and a good sense of duty. We will train educators who can embrace and understand the pain of the students, and cultivate those who can become life mentors and provide experimental and existential care for students.

These things cannot be achieved alone. It can be accomplished when alumni, faculty, current students, and community members all put forth their utmost efforts for the University’s development. With a new vision, the Poonghyang campus is inflamed with passion to strive for rapid progress. Let us altogether become the foundation of this progress and develop GNUE into the world’s most outstanding educational institute for teachers. Let us make GNUE a general university of education that moves everybody’s heart.

GNUE, New Aspects for Comming 100 years

The world states are all connected in one whole community, and thus all changes progress simultaneously. In the midst of fading educational borders, GNUE concentrates its attention on innovating educational services, securing research competitiveness, and training elementary teachers who have thoughtful consideration and good character.

Ⅰ. Teacher's Character Program

GNUE implements the Teacher's Character Program in the first time among universities of education for training pre-service teachers with appropriate teacher's code and good character at the time of 90th anniversary, 2013. The program provides pre-service teachers with various activities experiencing astronomical observatory, canoe, or rail-bike, special lectures of famous persons, and group art therapy program for promoting self-understanding and communication skills and training creative and caring elementary school teachers. The program effects on improving abilities of social adjustment and interaction with others and healing body and mind through experiencing nature.

Ⅱ. Learning Assistant Teacher Practice

The juniors of GNUE should take the Learning Assistant Teacher Practice program from 2013 which aims to train teachers tailored to the need of the field who are able to teach low- or under-achievement students(learning disabilities, at-risk students, ADHD, etc.). In the Learning Assistant Teacher Practice program, the pre-service teachers have chances to visit elementary school classes and assist teaching and learning, to understand the students with low achievement and improve their basic academic skills and finally to be pre-service teachers having both passion and devotion.

Ⅲ. Training Global Elementary Teachers Leading a New Era

GNUE makes efforts to innovate educational services and to secure research competitiveness. In order to strengthen the capacity of university and educate pre-service teachers to be global leaders, GNUE constructs networks with various national or local instructions such as Gwangju Metropolitan Office of Education, Gwangju MBC, Gwangju Metropolitan City Corporation, and Korean Intellectual Property Office, and interchanges and cooperates with about 40 international institutions such as Naruto University of Education in Japan, The University of Auckland in New Zealand, Mongolian State University of Education, Chulalongkorn University in Thailand, etc. GNUE also provides students with a language course at CSU, San Bernardino and University of Pittsburgh, and cultural experience and student exchange programs with Taiwan, Vietnam, Malaysia, etc. to gives students opportunities to experience educational system of various nations.

Ⅳ. Harmonic Educational Community with Local Communities

GNUE operates various special programs which reflect the need of local communities such as 'Camp for the Gifted and Talented' sponsored by Hampyeong Office of Education that assesses gifted and talented children in their early stages and provides appropriate programs to develop their abilities consistently, and 'Creative Science Classroom' sponsored by Samsung Dream Scholorship Foundation that provides the neglected class of children with opportunities to get education equally.

GNUE reinforces its competence as a point university and constructs a harmonic educational community leading the education and culture of local communities. Center for Multicultural Education Research provides children with multicultural family with one to one educational mentoring program to help overcome their educational problems. Language Education Center and Lifelong Education Center open various programs for local communities, and Center for Assisting Inclusive Education implements appropriate individualized education for children with disabilities or underachievement. Gokseong Educational Culture Center and Punghyang Culture Hall holds various experiencing activities or arts and culture programs.

Departments

Undergraduate Specializations

‘Cultivating Students' Full Potential as Noble & Professional Teachers’

1. Ethics Education
2. Korean Lauguage Education
3. Social Studies Education
4. Mathematics Education
5. Science Education
6. Physical Education
7. Music Education
8. Art Education
9. Practical Arts Education
10. Pedagogy
11. English Education
12. Computer Education
13. Special and Inclusive Education

Graduate school Specializations

‘To promote the qualities of elementary school teachers to upgrade knowledge of their specialized studies, and to meet their needs for teaching techniques’

1. Elementary Ethics Education
2. Elementary Korean Education
3. Elementary Social Studies Education
4. Elementary Mathematics Education
5. Elementary Science Education
6. Elementary Physical Education
7. Elementary Music Education
8. Elementary Art Education
9. Life Environment Technology Education(Practical Arts & Environments Education)
10. Elementary English Education
11. Elementary Computer Education
12. Curriculum and Instruction
13. Elementary Educational Administration and Policy Studies
14. Counseling for Elementary Education (Child Counseling)
15. Elementaducation Education
16. Early Childhood
17. Culture and Arts Education and Planning
18. Multicultural Education
19. Education of Children’s Literature
20. Invention and Robotics Education 21.Career and Consulting Education

Statistics

1,485

The number of the students
80

The number of the full time
professors
79

The number of the Officers
33

The number of the sister
universities
69.8%

Scolarship Rate
$3,200

Tuition Fee
(for 1 year)
91.58%

Rate of Appointment of Teacher
(2015)