Analysis Of Curriculum Discourse

Through cleaning up the changing features of curricula discourses, this paper tries to analyze those deep-seated contents at the backside of curriculum discourse from the aspect of the changes in history. It focuses on reflection of the core problems in curriculum field, especially those after the New Curriculum Reform. Meanwhile, on the basis of the development in curriculum field of China, this thesis makes a tentative discussion concerning the future development of curriculum discourses.Chapter Ⅰ, based on the analysis of the description and comprehension of "curriculum discourse" in three typical fields—linguistics, sociology and philosophy, gives a definition of curriculum discourse, and analyzes the significance of introducing it into the field of curriculum research.Chapter Ⅱ describes and analyzes the features of curriculum discourse of threeperiods-the period of the Cultural Revolution, from the end of the Cultural Revolutionto the later part of 1990s', and the period of the New Curriculum Reform.Chapter Ⅲ discusses some notable problems in the changes of curriculum discourse in history from such aspects as the over-influence of social ideology, the maze caused in experimental curriculum discourse and the lack of individuality in curriculum discourse.Chapter Ⅳ, from the point of view of generating thinking, makes a tentative discussion of the future development of curriculum discourse.