燕京大学是近代中国颇具影响的教会大学,由于历史原因,海内外学者对记载燕京大学外籍教师活动的资料发掘很不够,直到20世纪80年代以后,国内外学者对燕京大学外籍教师的史料才开始重视起来,并且成果丰硕。充分发掘和利用燕京大学外籍教师史料,有助于燕京大学校史研究,有助于客观分析燕京大学外籍教师在北京近代教育史上的作用,有助于为当代教育改革提供借鉴。
Yenching University is an influential Christian college in modern China,but due to historical reasons,documents about Yenching University’s foreign teachers’activities have not been fully explored by domestic and overseas scholars.Until after the 1980s,scholars have began to pay attention to historical materials about foreign teachers in Yenching University.To fully explore and use historical data of foreign teachers in Yenching University can help Yenching university history studies,help an objective analysis the role played by foreign teachers of Yenching University in modern education history,and help to provide a reference for the contemporary educational reform.