A Study On American Research Universities' General Education Curriculum

Along with factors as social politics,economy,science and technology,thought culture and so on development changes,the society also set the new request to talented person's demand,not only requests some professional persons,moreover needs versatile talented persons of full scale development of knowledge broad.The US universities of study comply with the request of the time development,universal recognition in the university to develop passes general education,but general education curriculums is the best way of achieving general education t.The US general education curriculums of research universities,starting probably have more than 100 years history until now,and has gained the obvious successful experiences in the implementation process.No matter will be the present or the future,the US research universities will continue to eagerly anticipate the American universities to general education the trend.After the such long time's development,the US research universities' general education curriculums already to gain the quite mature experience in each aspect,these experiences will have certainly profit from the value to design of Our country Universities' general education curriculums.This article in the introductory remarks first introduced question statement,from the higher education development's common tendency,the US research universities' general education curriculum of history and obtains experience,as well as our country institutions of higher learning general education curriculums of the strong foot development and the deficiency from three aspects ask this article question.The literature summarizes mainly narrates from overseas and the domestic two aspects.Then talks about this article the research mentality and the method as well as the main concept appraisal.Through the introductory remarks narration,has a clear summary by it to this article approximate mentality.In the article talks about the US general education of research universities development process. From Eliot,the Law will time general education curriculums idea reappearing time,Hutchins time, general education and professional education in the college course establishes is the transition-period which is the acknowledged leader respectively.The Conant time,general education and professional education in the college course establishes shares half and half.The Bork time,general education idea ingrained.General education curriculums experience a long developing process in the US study university's development,and was mature gradually.In the US various universities generally open general education curriculums until present.When the US research universities establish their general education curriculums,follows certain basic idea,the basic principle and the main method.In the basic idea,it mentioned the liberalism education idea,the etemal principle education idea,the progress principle education idea and the essential factor principle education idea.Each kind of education idea has its respective good and bad points,when general education curriculums design overall evaluation above four kind of education idea.The basic principle respectively is the integrity principle and the free principle.The integrity principle stressed that student's aspect of knowledge must be broad,balanced development. The free principle stressed that the student may act according to own interest hobby to take as an elective the curriculum freely.In the main methods involves the strategical method,the guiding principle method and the curriculum goal establishment method.General education curriculums of the US research universities have four kinds,respectively is the "core curriculum" pattern,the "classical famous work" curriculum model,the "classification compulsory" curriculum model and the "takes as an elective the curriculum freely" pattern.In each kind of pattern,article respectively selected one to have the representative university to carry on the explanation as the example.When talks about each kind of pattern specifically,first elaborated the pattern definition,next is the curriculum start situation,including the curriculum start's theory basis and the curriculum class,summarizes the curriculum characteristic finally.This article final part talks about the characteristic and the development enlightenment of general education curriculums of the US research university.In the article about the characteristics analyze its general education curriculums emphatically from the curriculum goal's establishment, the curriculum content's choice and the organization,the curriculum implementation and the course evaluation.The US research universities' general education curriculums knows enlightenment this part,which involving general education curriculum goal concrete application,general education curriculumstructurization,general education curriculum equalizing and general education curriculum model integration.Involves the superiority of the US research universities' general education curriculums,when our country current university establish general education curriculums, it based on our country actual situation's foundation,suitably profits from the successful experience the US research universities' general education curriculums,in order to our country universities' general education curricuhtms is be more scientific and more reasonable.