New The Tendency's Appraisement About Postmodernism Of The New Curriculum Reform In China

One of target of the new curriculum reform is to solve some abuses that lie in school education and teaching, which is directed by scientism's curriculum and teaching theory. Recent years, many scholars are introspecting and appraising scientism's curriculum of our country and crisis problems. It's educational view of anti-scientism, anti-essentialism and anti-rationalism is made brand by Postmodernism and educational trend of thoughts. It should be said that the idea of the new curriculum reform that is constituted by educational Trend of Postmodernism and the idea of curriculum's Postmodernism in especial has some active meaning. For example, it emphasize that target of curriculum should attend to student's existence and teach students how to criticize and create; that knowledge of many aspects should be attended in content of curriculum; that all kinds of study's manners should be linked in the process of teaching. The importance of Formative evaluation should be emphasized in the curriculum's evaluation.Educational trend of Postmodernism has itself limitation (subjectivity, relativity, absolute negative) and scientific education theory don't lose it's place in our country yet, So rationalism, science and subject spirit which are advocated by modernity don't far take root in our country's society, which lie in a floating condition without root. At the same time, Postmodernism criticize "rationalism", "science" that are advocated by modernity, which walk to the position of anti-science, because its criticism overdid. Connecting our country's situation and reality of our country's educational reform, the idea of new curriculum reform that is constructed form the curriculum theory of Postmodernism suffer form the impedance of practice ,during the process of the new curriculum reform that guide the curriculum theory of Postmodernism and a series new teaching problems are caused. Such as, the target of curriculum lowered the fundamentality of knowledge's target, which lead to students' emotion, attitude and view of value become "no source of water" and "no the wood of origin"; on the content of curriculum, relative definiteness and objectivity are neglected and teaching material is fallen to another low degree; teacher as a dominator is belittled and teacher's role is reduced; an investigating study is overemphasized and meaningful language accepting study is refused and even accepting study is equated to mechanical study and passive sturdy; formative evaluation is overemphasized but function of examination is belittled and soon. The faintness of theories will lead to someone bewildered who practice , which guide the practice of the new curriculum reform, so it is unavoidable that a thought that knowledge is neglected will appear in the practice of the new curriculum reform. With Marxist education thought for guide and surpassing knowledge view, curriculum view, teaching view and sticking to idea foundation of the new curriculum reform that is guided by "teaching idea of recognition", "new western theories in contemporary" that is stood for by postmodernism, "discarding thickness and leaving essence" and "discarding falsity and leaving authenticity", consistently modifying "idea of the new curriculum reform" are able to guarantee successful finish of the new curriculum reform.