Abstract:

Involution is a kind of anxious state mixed superficial prosperity with virtual standstill in discipline development. Teacher education discipline just is at the critical point of discipline involution whose direct manifestations are false prosperity, superficial strength and blind scale expansion. Paradigm mutations of discipline constitutes fundamental principle to break the development path dependence of teacher education discipline, whose starting points are to select growth point, to activate the growth momentum and to deal with the internal and external relations of the discipline. Chinese teacher education discipline meets the new chances for discipline change of teacher education in which urgent social need, expanding researcher body while accumulating knowledge are expanding extremely. In future, the action strategies are as following, that is, activating hot discipline pints, tamping discipline basis, releasing discipline energy and purifying discipline matrix.

Key words: discipline involution, teacher education discipline, discipline paradigm, discipline’s original point, discipline’s growth point, action strategy