erspectives of Innovation
Beijing Normal University Pei Dina
Abstract:Responding to the requirements of new epoch,the curriculum reform of basic education in China has been experiencing the profound transformation from traditional one to the modern model.This paper attempts to analyze the values,structures and form,contents,implementation and steps,the technical supports and the methodology of curriculum reform of basic education in China based on the macroscopic view and perspectives of innovation.
Key words:innovation on schooling,curriculum reform of basic education,reformative endeavors
Curriculum,as the core of basic education,is the embodiment of the educational institution and thoughts,the essential measures of quality and ways to ensure the realization of educational goals.Curriculum change is a key foundation of modernization of education in China.
Over the past 30 years,curriculum reform of basic education complies with the tendency of time and shifts from the traditional to the modern model based on the reformative endeavors.It is worth of rethinking the on-going change process,faults and experiences and that will provide some inspirations for the curriculum reform of basic education in the future.
Challenges of curriculum reform in China and innovation of schooling
1.Need for curriculum reform
With the transformation of planned economy system to the market-oriented economy system in China since 1990s,it means the human existence has been dramatically changed.As Gu (2001) argues,over the past 30 years,there are not only great changes on the distribution of resources,but the entire social life,or human existence has been incredibly transformed in China,which results to the radical change of schooling.Typically,due to the requirements of industrial society and information age,the challenges of imbalanced development of regional economy,multicultural values,problems of morality and the cultural ecological crisis,curriculum reform and development of basic education are confronted four urgent problems.