A Study On A Reform Strategy Of Curriculum 2005 In South Africa

Guided by dialectical materialism and historical materialism of Marxism, this thesis tries to analyze the curriculum reform initiatives in South Africa since 1990s, through reviewing the last apartheid state's efforts on curriculum reform and the development of the new curriculum reform made by the latest two sessions of the government in South Africa, and using the method of history in unity with logic, taking the specific research on difference between countries as the framework, to discover the basic characteristics of the reform of Curriculum 2005, to summarize the experience and the lessons from the curriculum development so as to give some insight into the current practice and reform of Curriculum in China's elementary education.This thesis includes introduction, body and conclusion. The body has four parts. It firstly gives a brief account of the development of the post-apartheid educational system; Secondly, it investigates the last apartheid state reform efforts and the post-apartheid South Africa and curriculum reform, focusing on the formulation of Curriculum 2005, its review and revision. Thirdly, it explores the characteristics of the new curriculum reform. Finally, it analyzes some problems in the process of the curriculum reform in South Africa for the sake of enlightening the reform and development of the curriculum in China's primary schools and middle schools.