Title: An Indispensable Restrictive Force to New Curriculum——Comments on Essentialist Curriculum Theory
Abstract:Essentialism tries to pass on the essence of shared human culture as its purpose,promote social progress and democracy as its aims,advocate knowledge-centered curriculum development and stress on rece...Essentialism tries to pass on the essence of shared human culture as its purpose,promote social progress and democracy as its aims,advocate knowledge-centered curriculum development and stress on receptive instruction and faculty training,which is titled as one of the Four Major Curriculum Paradigms.In the practice of New Curriculum Reform of Basic Education in China,Essentialist Curriculum Theory gives us so much enlightenment,such as shaping our national spirit through education,preventing Teaching-Receiving model at the verge of eliminating,being alert the emergence of moral removed education,preventing attaching less attention to the necessity of knowledge mastering and avoiding city-based view and lack justice of education.Read More
Publication Year: 2005
Publication Date: 2005-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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