Studies On Adult-education's Curriculum Developments In The Lifelong Study Time

The curriculum is the focus of the education reforming and developments. However, in the adult-education domain, it seems that the curriculum question has not received enough recognition. Although there have been some special investigations on this field both took by domestic and foreign adult-education workers, but the progress still have a large gap compared with the curriculum researchs in the elementary-education domain. In view of this, it is very important to carry out research on adult-education's curriculum which can manifest the adult-education's characteristic distinctly.This paper bases on the basic theories which are related to the curriculum development, invests the distinctive quality of the developments and estimation of adult-education's curriculum in this lifelong study time, contains the definition of adult-education's curriculum, the selection, progress, and goal of the developing patterns of the adult-education's curriculum. After doing so, it aims to making the curriculum developments pay attention to adult learners' needs and the studying characteristic, strengthening the adult-education's compatibility and learner's go-aheadism, which can serves the adult-education's practice effectively. In the selection of the adult-education's curriculum developing patterns, this paper compares and analysis nowadays' four typical patterns: Houle's pattern; Boone's pattern; Nadler's pattem and Knowles's pattern. Combining our country's condition, we propose that "demanding-oriented" pattern suits our country's adult-education's curriculum developments.Finally, this paper prospect the foreground of the adult-education's curriculum developments in this lifelong study time. We proposed that the curriculum should based on the humanity, and fundamentally devote to the adult learner's all-around developments, take the adult learners as the main body, and cause the adult-education's curriculum move towards the multiplication.