Research On Main-stream Culture Of Curriculum

School curriculum embodies the main-stream culture of a specified community or social group. For thousands of years, curriculum has been keeping pace with the main-stream culture, passing on the main-stream culture accepted by the society."The seven arts" in ancient Greece, the religious courses in Middle Ages, the humane disciplines in the Renaissance, the scientific subjects in modern times as well as the comprehensive ones at present, all represent the transformation of the main-stream culture in different historical stages and in different countries.The process of compiling and editing curriculum ensures the incarnation of the main-stream culture. The choosing of the contents of teaching material keeps the main-stream culture in curriculum as the best culture. To some degree, the instructions of teaching material embodies the main-stream culture by confining the contents to the perspectives of the main-stream culture. Plus, the editing of teaching material brings teaching material and the main-stream culture closer, for teaching material should meet the demand of the main-stream culture, or it will be eliminated.The implementation of curriculum secures the main-stream culture features. For teachers, as the leading roles in the teaching process, representing the culture of the major nation and class, often interpret the basic principles and rules of a particular course from the perspective of the main-stream culture, or probe into some problems and views from the standpoint of the main-stream culture and ideology. And students, as the initiatives in the learning process, have different ability to adapt to the language environment in schools due to their different nationalities and social identities.The dominating tradition of the main-stream culture in curriculum only makes the main-stream culture heard and the very standard to evaluate other cultures, thus, inviting the marginalization of other cultures. With the pace of globalization and the rapid development of multi-culture education, the improvement of education will be evaluated by all cultures rather than the mere main-stream culture. To reach a harmony between the main-stream culture and other cultures in curriculum, unity and diversity should be achieved in curriculum offers. Along with the improvement of the editing system of the teaching material, experimental schools of multi-teaching material should be established to meet the needs of students with different nationalities and social identities. In addition, school education, family education and community education should be a joint, to make up for the lost cultural resources of the students from minorities and lower class.