Study On The Curriculum Development Of Dour Guide Major Of Higher Vocational Education In Hunan Province

Curriculum development in higher vocational education is urgently needed at the moment. It is hard to improve practical teaching , not to say to improve teaching standard without good curriculum system that suits the training goals of higher vocational education.With tourism's development of dimension and inner contain, its requires for tour guide curriculum in higher vocational college are more and more high. The development on tour guide curriculum needs to give consideration to the requires of enterprises , students and colleges. The text uses such methods as investigation, document and visit, to hold tour guide's quality requires from tourism enterprises and the real problems about tour guide curriculum in higher vocational colleges. It is the foundation of curriculum development. The survey indicates that tour guide curriculum exists some problems such as thinking highly of knowledge teaching, looking down on vocation quality forming and vocational work skill mastering, curriculum carry-out lack of preceding and breaking away from enterprises, curriculum structure being unreasonable, means of curriculum carry-out being traditional.Based on enterprise's requires and the problems of tour guide curriculum in higher vocational colleges, drawn lessons from abroad experiences about curriculum development, It puts forward the basic principles, the basic orientation and the technological thoughts. The basic principles are curriculum carry-out corresponding to the training goals, emphasizing the training of synthetical ability, professional curriculum carry-out embodying basis, practical and advance ,and protruding practice and bringing forth new ideas, college education combining occupation qualification exam, curriculum system meeting students' requires for character development. The basic orientation is to set the goals based on the main line of ability training, the aim of serving the market requires and the leading to obtain employment, to set the occupation post groups based on the market survey and occupation post analysis, to analyse the ability structure based on the occupation qualification standards and the real post ability requires, to arrange tour guide curriculum using the model of wide base and movable patterns. The technological thoughts are goals of curriculum being adapt to tourism market demand, to attach importance to the business technical ability and synthetical ability rise , to embody the enterprising spirit and the ability to innovate culture; curriculum content achieving occupation quality and job skill pay equal attention with occupation knowledge, professional knowledge knowledge arrangement being rational , theory knowledge and practice knowledge achieving mastery through a comprehensive study , curriculum content and occupation mating with basis culture; the curriculum carry-out cooperation and participation striving for enterprise into practice , the teaching material write being prospectivity , new teaching pattern , takes "pair of teacher type " teaching staff team building seriously and reinforces take a long shot; the course evaluation insisting on operatability , scientificalness , timeliness , universality , completeness principle, walk all-direction road of estimating. According to the above thought and curriculum development orientation and principle, the study form a tour guide specialty curriculum plan.