A Study Of Teachers' Participation In Curriculum Development

Teachers' participation in curriculum development is both a theoretical and practical question, which has caused extensive concern after basic educational curriculum reform in mainly developed countries in 50's and 60's in 20th century. With the development of Chinese basic educational curriculum reform, teachers' participation in basic educational curriculum reform in our country has begun to attract people's attention. By using documental analysis and logical speculation based on the achievements in others' research, we study the connotation, the historical context and the significance of teachers' participation in curriculum development from curriculum aspect, analyze the idealism change of teachers' participation in curriculum development, then put forward some strategies about teachers' participation in curriculum development. At last, we analyze the problems exists in teachers' participation in basic educational curriculum reform and make expectation for its development in future.After analyzing the connotation of related concept, we think that teachers' participation in curriculum development refers to teachers consciously, whole-processing, initiatively and cooperatively intervene curriculum decision-making, curriculum objects' confirmation and curriculum contents' selection and organization, curriculum implementation, curriculum evaluation, and curriculum management, and so on. By studying the historical context of teachers' participation in curriculumdevelopment, we think the relation between teachers and curriculum has exercised such a process as the integral whole, differentiation and integration. The significance of teachers' participation in curriculum development as follows: it can guarantee the success of curriculum reform and promote curriculum's development and teachers' professional development.Teachers' participation in curriculum development involves the idealism change of curriculum development, especially of curriculum decision-making, curriculum objects' confirmation and curriculum contents' selection and organization, curriculum implementation, curriculum evaluation and curriculum management. Based on the analysis above, we put forward the strategies of teachers' participation in curriculum development. For the policy, we should give teachers the rights to participate in curriculum development and perfect teachers resource training organism. For the teachers, they should advance the theoretical literacy of teachers' participation in curriculum development, cultivate cooperative spirit, carry out communication and cooperation and curriculum action research.The last part points out the problems existing in teachers' participation in curriculum development and look forward to the curriculum development. The results as follows: we should strengthen the study on teachers' participation in curriculum development, deepen curriculum administration management organism reform, turning the teacher from administration-organization to profession-technique, take curriculum development as teacher development, strengthen the cooperation between educational theorists, experts and teachers, and conquer the difficulty and limits of teachers' participation in curriculum development.