Postmodern Implication Of Dewey's Curriculum

John Dewey (1859-1952), who was one of the greatest educators in human beings' history. His writing is one of the most popular reading matters.Because of people's misunderstandings for Dewey, people had two opinions about Dewey: praise and censure. And the source of their misunderstandings was the "modernistic dualism". Dewey's empiricism emphasizes the unity of the interdependence and the interrelationship. This relation theory broke the traditional static and mechanical cosmology and dichotomy methodology. In the past, the scholars always read Dewey in dualistic thinking model, so that they made many unnecessary misunderstandings.At the end of the last century, the modern curriculum theory changed into postmodern curriculum theory. The views of curriculum scholars were broadened by this change. Postmodernism's deconstruction to "center", criticism to dualism, pursuit for subjective consciousness and dimination of knowledge objectivity break the research model of modernism's curriculum theory and thus the curriculum theory's research starts to focus on equal dialog, subjective activeness, "issues" and "interference" and contextual and functional perspectives of knowledge, etc.The change of this thinking mode gave us a new visual angle to reconsider Dewey.Be based on postmodern, this thesis discusses the philosophic basis and the basic views in Dewey's curriculum theory, from this basis, it delineates the postmodern implication ofDewey's curriculum-- to overcome dualism, to dispel center theory and to deconstructauthority and control.