Campus Culture: An Important Chinese Curriculum Resource

From the angle of view of curriculum development, This thesis has a main way of thinking of developing and making use of the campus culture which consist of physical culture, institutional culture and spiritual culture. This research concentrates on possibility and necessity of studying the campus culture which be used as one of the resources of Chinese curriculum, the basic principle of development and using, concrete contents and teaching strategy, brings the campus culture into the research of Chinese curriculum, hoping there are some creation and breaking, finding out a new curriculum resources for Chinese curriculum resources and providing a new thought and lesson for Chinese curriculum. The study that campus culture acts as a resource of Chinese curriculum manly comes from the writer's thinking there is some contact between the reform of Chinese curriculum and campus culture. Along with the proceeding of the curriculum reform in our national basic education, the importance of development and using of curriculum resources are being increasingly highlighted. The purpose of developing and using curriculum resources is to merge the native resources & experience, the student's daily life into the teaching. Campus culture, as an essential part of the school life, has an extensive and profound influence upon the students' thought and conduct by going directly into the student's experiential world. However, there is often a lack between school education and culture in the long run. Campus culture is even being excluded and rejected by some schools and teachers, which make it can't enter Chinese curriculum reasonably .Its consequence is that students are dull with Chinese study. When students learn more, they keep off their own true life more. Therefore, the reformation of the Chinese curriculum should consider a close combination with campus culture, letting the course design more near to the student's living world, more easily be comprehended and accepted by students. The present research state at home about curriculum resources, Chinese curriculum resources and campus culture shows that the development and utilization of Chinese curriculum still be placed in the depth of the start stage, and the depth and extend are far from enough. From the angle of view of curriculum development, it could be meaningful in many aspects that the study of campus culture is bringing into the field of design and study of Chinese curriculum. First, it brings Chinese curriculum design to more come close the student's living world; more easily pursue studies to be comprehended and accepted. Second, it benefits to achieve harmony and integration of Chinese curriculum, which will be ready to reduce idling, and wasting of the curriculum resources. Third, it helps to practice Chinese curriculum to reform, and promote the students' Chinese study and completely develop themselves. A Chinese curriculum resource generally refers to a kind of conditions that can be exploited for the purpose of Chinese teaching or for Chinese course. Campus culture, the community physical and spiritual, being created, stimulated and shared by all or part of the school members, including the physical figure, ideas, behaviors, and regulations as well as rules, is the objective-developing request for orientation society. For the sake of developing Chinese curriculum resources, through many approaches, the researchers must be after what are accessible to enter the Chinese curriculum course, and can contact with Chinese educating and teaching activity. Therefore, there is necessity to develop and use campus culture, which should be served Chinese curriculum effectively. Theoretically, this thesis from five aspects of educational psychology, Marxist activity of theories, persons of theories, multicultural educations, educational ecology, it analyze the basis of theories that the campus culture can become one of the Chinese curriculum resources. Being combining with the educational practice, it also analyzed the necessity that campus culture can be used as one of the Chinese curriculum resources: Students lack true experience in their Chinese study life. The public culture influence contemporarily middle-school students' living to increasingly extend. Schoolmasters and teachers lack cognition about the importance of campus culture, and there is often a lack of necessary "dialogue"between student and campus culture. Because of the character of campus culture, when people develop and use the campus culture in Chinese curriculum, they should notice four basic principles: Special principle, latent principle, the whole principle and consistent principle. Then combining on-site inspection with case study, from three aspects of physical culture, institutionalculture and spiritual cultures, it respectively discusses how to develop and make use of campus culture curriculum resources. Later on, this thesis also discussed the teaching strategy of development and using where campus culture as one of the Chinese curriculum resources, which make the conclusion of this thesis more easily be operated. In addition, in the process of developing and using campus culture resources, People must put a key role on the Chinese teacher; the development of Chinese curriculum resources must have the local special features; teachers must notice choose valid Chinese curriculum resources. It is a brand-new trial that the development and utilization of campus culture in Chinese curriculum. In this process, for more goodly developing and making use of the campus culture resources, people must set up a harmonious development idea of campus culture. It regards as the campus culture as a whole, making the physical, institutional and spiritual cultures concerned simultaneously and constructed together. The development and utilization should be based on the principle that"the physical culture is the foundation, the institutional culture is the support, the spiritual culture is the core". This would promote the interaction between teacher's culture and student' culture. It is meaningfully important for advancing the foundational educational curriculum reformation, improving the efficiency of the development and utilization of Chinese curriculum, and promoting the study in Chinese and the all-round development of the student as well.