Research On Practice-Oriented Curriculum Of Primary School Education Specialty

"Practice orientation" is the inevitable and rational value orientation choice of primary school education specialty and its curriculum. It is a natural step in curriculum reform of primary education, teacher-specialized development as well as teacher education reform. It embodies the expectations and requirements of inner development of teacher professionalism and primary school teacher education development reality.Taking curriculum of primary school education specialty as the research object, the thesis states that practice-oriented curriculum is the basic value orientation of primary school education specialty. The thesis claims the core value of "practice" in a primary school teacher training, based on primary school teachers’ professional qualities, and the belief of "practice". With "practice" as the orientation, the thesis expounds how to establish the independent curriculum system with characteristics of primary school education specialty by the way of integrating theory with practice to cultivate reflective primary school teachers.This thesis consists of the following parts:The introduction mainly explains the origin of the problem. It generalizes all the domestic research achievements related to primary school education specialty and its curriculum and practice-oriented teacher education and its curriculum; it summarizes the inspiration of existing researches to this study, and analyzes the defects in the existing researches. It overviews the research purpose, significance, the possible innovation, and the ideas and methods of the research."Practice" is the orientation of primary education, teacher specialization development and teacher education reform. Study of practice-oriented curriculum of primary school education specialty meets the need of education development and primary school teacher education development.The first chapter expounds the implication of practice-oriented primary school education specialty. It lists the definitions of "practice","practice orientation", and "practice orientation of primary school education specialty". This part carries on a rational analysis on the practice-oriented primary school education specialty from the theoretical perspectives of understanding teacher’s professionalism and comprehending situated learning. It explicitly points out the essence of education and characteristics of practice-oriented primary school education specialty. Meanwhile, it interprets the goal of talents cultivation of practice-oriented primary school education specialty attaches great importance to the education practice ability and takes it as the core quality of education practice. This chapter lays a foundation for the entire study and at the same time it is the standpoint of the full thesis.The second chapter explores the professional qualities of primary school teachers inherently constrain the curriculum of primary school education specialty. On the one hand, this chapter states the research ideas of the teachers’ quality structure. With interviews and investigations, it sums up the requirements of the primary school teachers’ professional qualities, and mainly based on the characteristics of primary school children and education, the unique value of primary school education and primary school teachers for children’s growth, and the primary school teachers’ role positioning constructing the reasonable primary school teachers’ basic quality structure, this chapter summarizes that the professional qualities of primary school teachers should be based on the development of children and it also puts forward an idea that the development of children and the demands of primary school teacher education are the logical starting point of the curriculum. On the other hand, via a questionnaire, this chapter analyzes the status of development of primary school teachers’ professional qualities, and illustrates characteristics and influencing factors of development of primary school teachers’ professional qualities. This chapter provides basic beliefs and ideas of curriculum of primary school education specialty which will promote the harmonious development of primary school teachers’ professional qualitiesThe third chapter expounds related theory about the practice-oriented curriculum of primary school education specialty. This part focuses on the modern curriculum theory, the theory of teacher specialization development, the theory of teachers’ knowledge so as to find practice elements in the curriculum and get inspiration from the practical essence. This chapter provides this thesis with the theory and the foundation and guidance of ideas.The fourth chapter elaborates the evidence for practice-oriented curriculum provision of primary school education specialty. The curriculum should have international outlook, and draw on the experience of primary school teachers’ pre-service training in developed countries (regions). The new teacher education curriculum standard of our country is the standard basis of the curriculum for this study. The inherent requirement of this study is to face primary school education practice, and to meet the needs of the primary school education practice. This chapter is the realistic basis for constructing practice-oriented curiculum system of primary school education specialty.The fifth chapter analyzes the present situation and the existing problems of curriculum of primary school education specialties in China. On the analysis of the course training schemes of12colleges and universities, this chapter lists the existing problems of the curriculum in primary school education specialties in China. And combined with case analysis on the applicableness of course training scheme of primary school education specialty of a certain college, this chapter explores the existing problems and causes of the curriculum provision of primary school education specialties in depth.The sixth chapter claims that practice-oriented curriculum system of primary school education specialty should be constructed. This chapter puts forward the basic principles of the practice-oriented curriculum of primary school education specialty, designs the course objectives, gives a description of the basic train of thought, the structure pattern and its characteristics and explains the process of curriculum implementation. This chapter emphasizes that the course system with professional characteristics of primary school education specialty should be established, which should highlight the characteristics of practicalness and comprehensiveness, embody the children-oriented value orientation strive to realize the interaction between theory and practice of curriculum.The thesis comes to a conclusion that practice-oriented curriculum of primary school education specialty is the core issue of the development of current primary school teacher education. Only with the correct undertanding of "practice orientation" and "practice-oriented curriculum", can the great advances on concept and methods be made in the primary school teachers’ pre-service training. As a result,"reflective practitioners" with professional qualities of primary school teachers will be successfully cultivated,who conform to the requirements of the development of primary school education career.