Study On The Construction Of Curriculum System For Master Of Education

The essential part of Master of Education(M.Ed) is its curriculum system. Therefor, it is crucial to construct a scientific and reasonable curriculum system of M.Ed, which not only have positive effect on multipolarity of our country's degree and graduate education, but also can improve the scientificity of professional degree's curriculum design. Furthermore, it could help change the curriculum and instruction idea, action and evaluation of our country's elementary education, help change teachers'role, forms of activity, teaching style as well as idea and action of evaluation, then improve teachers'efficient teaching over improving teachers'professional development, and as the result, promote people's comprehensive development and identity development.The first step to construct curriculum system for M.Ed is to explicit its value orientation and principle. Because of plurality of the subject of value, there are various of value orientations, such as academic-oriented, utilitarian-oriented,demand-oriented, knowledge- oriented as well as individuality-oriented value and so on. Such various value orientations require us to make choice depending on the ultimate value, curriculum objective of M.Ed and different demands of different subjects when we choose and organize curriculum contents, arrange curriculum schedule, implement curriculum and evaluate curriculum. At the same time, the curriculum system must reflect the demand of the times and the reality of teaching. It should consider teaching practice, teacher professional development and satisfy the current demand of education as well as self-improvement over autonomous innovation.Second, the curriculum system of M.Ed should has clear direction and index system. Unfortunately, the current curriculum system of M.Ed has little autonomy and hardly reflect the reality and demand of students of M.Ed. The main reason is that it just follow the cultivation goal of Master of Education and has no its own education object. Therefore, this article point out curriculum object design for our country's M.Ed under refering to experiences of America, British, Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong and so on. The author believes that the curriculum system of M.Ed should take teacher training, practical mindedness and expertise into account so that to cultivate expert teacher.Third, the structure of M.Ed curriculum system is important. However, there are some problems of the current M.Ed curriculum system, such as the imbalance between the proportion of common curriculum and professional course, compulsory course and optional course, theory course and practice course, the lack of comprehensiveness and normativity of curriculum. Then, this article point out that the current M.Ed curriculum system should drop off the proportion of common curriculum, such as English and Politics lessons and raise the proportion of professional courses, such as research methods courses to improve students'research capability and the proportion of optional course to make the curriculum flexible. As the result, the curriculum system can satisfy both demands of personality traits and diversity education.Fourth, curriculum implementation is an important part of M.Ed curriculum system. However, there are some problems during the process of curriculum implementation, such as conflicts between the increasing number of enrollments and the capability of university or college, the curriculum requirement and demand of practice, the in-service training and job, the same group of people but with different idea, and the misunderstanding on the nature of curriculum of M.Ed. To solve those problems, educators should build a developing way, which put quality at the first place and has an appropriate scale, should strengthen theory study on M.Ed curriculum, should quest for various way of learning, should promote guarantee system for curriculum learning, should build human resource system for curriculum development and should build curriculum goals with systematicness and clear arrangement.At last, curriculum evaluation is the basic and essential problem of developing M.Ed curriculum. After reviewing several aspects of current M.Ed curriculum evaluation, this article find that there is little meta-evaluation, evaluation system has little substantiality, curriculum goals fall short of the specification and are hard to be practiced, curriculum evaluation focus too much on building system, rather than on supervising, and evidence collection during evaluation process is not enough. To solve those problems, this article points out strategies to promote scientificalness of curriculum evaluation. These strategies are to improve construction and implementation of meta-evaluation system, to promote curriculum evaluation standard system, to expand ways of evidence collection, to carry out the serve function of curriculum evaluation and to build group members for curriculum evaluation.