The Culture Of School In The Curriculum Reform

Nowadays it is necessary for the school culture to transit and rebuild because of theneed of the curriculum reform and the quality of school. The school culture plays a crucialrole in the curriculum reform. It refers to the following questions: the present situation of theschool culture? How to form the school culture? What kind of influence do the current schoolculture has on curriculum? How to advance the curriculum reform with the transformation ofthe school culture? According to these related questions, from the analysis of the schoolculture, it indicates dimensionality of "the history of school", "the goal of the school", "therule of school", "the norm of relation in school" and "teachers' teaching practices" with thequalitative research method, and analyses the present situation, the cause of forming, theeffect to the curriculum, and the change of the school culture of a middle school since thecurriculum reform appears. The statistics shows that the school culture has an important effect on the curriculumreform on condition that material is enough, and this effect has a certain complexity andpermanence. There are active factors and negative factors in the culture of Case school. Thenegative factors play a dominant role, so the curriculum implement isn't good. The representative cultural characters of case school are as follows: exam culture,competition culture, authority culture, crisis culture, status difference culture, andconservative culture. All the cultures prevent the implement of curriculum reform. The historyof school lets teachers not give up the rate of entering the high middle school, and results inthe teachers' doubt of the curriculum reform; the rate of entering the high middle school leadsto the disaccord between the goal of curriculum and present curriculum implement; crisisculture lets teachers avoid the reform; difference culture contravenes the moral goal ofcurriculum reform; conservative culture lets the curriculum reform face a lot of difficulties.From an optimistic point of view, good local surrounding, the teacher culture with the spirit ofdedicating themselves to their studies; manage culture of improving the teaching; rule cultureof encouraging teachers to cooperate. The entire culture promotes the implement ofcurriculum change and the transfer of the school curriculum. The traditional idea of teacherswill change and their action will be of multiplicity; and the teaching culture also changes; thecooperation between teachers becomes more; the idea of student-centered will be acceptedand carried out. The effect between subjective select of school and objective culture surrounding formsthe school culture. Some factors form the school culture such as the concept of openingschools and the management method, the value of teachers and students, the expect of parentsand society, and the intervention of the government. Thus it is critical for curriculum reformto improve transform from the sudden school culture to ideal school culture in order toadvance the curriculum implement and achieve the deepest change –school change with thehelp of the school culture. Form the case, many jobs have been done in school but it is failedto build a culture surrounding to support the reform. So we should pay attention to thefollowing: reading, evaluating and understanding the present culture; looking for the way andstrategy: grasping the conflict of present culture; paying attention to the cooperation amongteachers; paying attention to the change of the leadership; cultivating the hero in schoolpractice; supporting the teachers fully.