Postmodern University Curriculum-Challenge To Western Cultural Hegemony

In the past, authoritative awareness, abstract curriculum discourse always present in the university curriculum, the Orient and the West is difficult to get harmony, it make university curriculum lost its intelligence and vigor. Draw back the philosophy source, previous curriculum have not got rid of the instrumental rational as symbol of certainty, integral and identity. Reflect on the university curriculum, this conception of regulatory of modern rationalism manifest as"West-Centerism"infiltrate Chinese university curriculum, it also manifest as Western cultural hegemony attempt to explain the native culture, deduct the native university curriculum. The postmodern philosophy was born, on the base rethinking and criticizing the modern rationalism.The ultimate purpose of curriculum activity is hand down the culture, develop the culture and foster the person who can create the new culture. See from the history of the development of the cultural, new culture often not based on"historical"and"powerful"discourse. Cultural creation comes from varied life-world and commonest human activity; comes from the courage to get rid of"historic"and"powerful"logic discourse and to shake off the yoke of the code; as well as comes from varying the visual angle to examine the life-world closely.The postmodern university curriculum require that you must use dialogue to deconstruct the discourse hegemony, the discourse of curriculum must return to the life-world of the expert, the teacher and the student; return to the earth of traditional culture. Development of Oriental and the Western high education should full of comprehension, confidence and solicitude in the field of curriculum culture.