The Plight Of The New Curriculum Reform Of Secondary School In The Western Countryside And Its Strategies

With the new curriculum reform came onto the expansion stage of the compulsory education in the autumn of 2004, the government prescribed that all the start grade must use the new curriculum both primary and secondary school in principle in fall 2005. After several years' reform, basic education has made a great achievement in general; however, there still exist some unignorable problems, especially the curriculum reform in the countryside. Through a case of studying the new curriculum reform in the western countryside secondary school , this thesis makes a detailed systematic analysis on the plight of the new curriculum reform existing in the countryside secondary school, and provides some strategies by means of interview observation, questionnaire, document-analysis etc,.This thesis falls into five parts:The first part is the introduction, which gives a brief introduction to the background and reasons, the purpose and significance of the research, as well as the methods used in the research; at the same time, provides a review on the present studies.The second part Based on the experiences of national and foreign curriculum reforms, the newest international curriculum theory and the development trend of the basic curriculum reforms, the new basic education curriculum reform is a continuation of previous education reforms and is an overall and profound basic education reform from the global view. The objective of is a summery of the new basic education reform. This part made a summery and analysis in the perspective of new curriculum reform' s background, basic characteristics, and new requirements on it. the new basic education reform reflects the following characteristics: all-sidedness, humanity and development. The structure of the new curriculum embodies the characteristics of balance, selectivity and integrity. The content manifests the characteristics of the life, foundation, integrity and the times. Its implementation is initiative, interactive and investigative. The curriculum evaluation is developmental, plural, and processing, and the curriculum management embodies the characteristics of unity, reasonable arrangement, and democracy. The new basic education curriculum reform put forward many new requirements for the teachers, students, school condition, and evaluation, etc.Part three, case study, is the main body of the thesis. This thesis makes a detailed analysis on the plight faced by the countryside middle school X in curriculum reform. I went to the research spot on September15,2007. After interviewing, classroom observing and making questionnaires, etc., I found that Middle school X had achieved a lot in terms of teaching concept, teaching methods and teaching management, etc., but there still exited some unignorable problems, such as lack of teachers, especially qualified teachers, short of teaching experiences, bad school conditions, difficulty in teacher training, over-large class, unqualified students resources, backward evaluation system, want of leaders' and people' s support, and urbanization tend in course reform. In addition, a detailed analysis is made to the above problems.Part four, another main body, puts forward the strategies to the western countryside secondary school curriculum reform. Based on the case study, this thesis put forward the corresponding strategies and suggestions in the perspective of government, school, teacher, expert and parents. The government should put out middle school curriculum reform with western countryside characteristics; invest more in the western countryside education; re-enforce the new curriculum reform; overcome the urbanization tend of teaching materials, and fully make use of local specialties to develop the local curriculum; promote the pay of teachers in the western countryside, improve the teachers' quality; advance the reform of evaluation system; and permeate the vocational education into the general education. The school should promote the leaders' course reform leading ability; try best to build the atmosphere of curriculum reform, and new corresponding teachers' culture; and carry on training and teaching research in order to make the countryside teachers adapt to the new curriculum reform as soon as possible. Teachers should strengthen the study of the cumculum reform theory to build the advanced education concept; actively develop the school's curriculum; try utmost to change the structure of knowledge; and reinforce cooperation and exchange, as well as self-reflection. Experts should participate in the practice of curriculum reform deeply; as well as reflect the reform rationally and have talks and communication sincerely. Parents should have communication with school actively, and take part in the school' s curriculum reform; change the traditional education notion; and make full use of their own advantage to support the school' s curriculum reform.The last part is a conclusion and reflection. In this part, I made a conclusion to the basic education curriculum reform and a deep reflection to the reform in order to provide reference for the later research.