Research On Curriculum Development In Higher Vocational Education Based On The View Of Constructivism Curriculum

Since the 1990s, Constructivism has been all over the whole world. The main influences Constructivism has on the field of education As follows: It puts forward a kind of new knowledge and study theories, it re- explains the essence of the knowledge and the mechanism of learning and combine to initiate new course construction with this. In the process of carrying out and pushing forward a new curriculum reform, Constructivism has become the main theory on guiding education, and has pushed forward the traditional education reform. Undoubtedly , Constructivism also provides a new angle of view for higher vocational education which are been in perplexity on how to develop curriculum. The core of this research are how to combine constructivism to curriculum development in higher vocational education and how to apply constructivism in curriculum development. The thesis consists of three parts:Part I: current circumstance about curriculum development in higher vocational education of china. This part introduces current situations on curriculum objectives, curriculum content, curriculum implementation, evaluation of curriculum, and analyzes the problems on curriculum development in higher vocational education: the target is not accurate; The course establishion and the talent development become disjointed;the students is not very aggressive in course implementation.Part II: Scooping out the core thought of constructivism curriculum view. The part introduces the origin,development of constructivism and core thought of constructivism, and reveals the core thought of constructivism curriculum view with the nature of courses and curriculum development process. Constructivism think that the essence of cource is corpus and Construct.it emphasize "expressive and evolving" curriculum object,significance construction,the importance of the scenaria,to evaluate curriculum in the process and scenario.Part III: Trying to set up the system of curriculum Development in Higher Vocational Education based on constructivism curriculum view. The part is the focus of the thesis. it sets up the system of curriculum development in higher vocational education based on constructivism curriculum view with the realization conditions of curriculum development, the principle of curriculum development, curriculum development process, and some strategies to curriculum development .The key point of this part is curriculum development process, the curriculum development process based on constructivism curriculum view as follows: To establish "expressive and evolving" curriculum object; To choose curriculum content contributes to significance construction of the student; to implement curriculum In Scenario and with activities; to evaluate curriculum from Various sides, multi-stages, multi-levels.