China Based Curriculum Development In The Possibility And Reality

From the late 1960s, school-based curriculum development (SBCD) is getting more and more attention in some developed countries, such as Britain, the United States and Australia, and becomes one of the important trends within the field of curriculum innovation in the 1970s and 1980s, hi the middle and late 1990s, the concept of school-based curriculum development was introduced into China and drew people's attention widely.SBCD advocates that the base of cumculum decision-making should be moved from government to schools, giving schools and teachers more autonomy and responsibility in curriculum development But according to the status quo of the basic education of China, schools aren't ready for SBCD in many ways. As the national curriculum reform of primary and middle school education will be put forward, schools must be up against the great challenge of the implementation of the policy of school-based curriculum development.Both theoretical method and empirical method are adopted in this study. The main purpose of this study is to open out the development state in history by the retrospection to the backgrounds of the emergence of SBCD and its development course, and to probe into the possibilities and realities of the implementation of SBCD in China on the basis of this. There are four conclusions in this study: (1) SBCD lacks in the mechanism of evaluation and supervision; (2) The main impetus of SBCD lies not inside schools but outside schools; (3) The implementation of SBCD is restricted in individual schools; (4) The policy of SBCD relapses into the old ways of simplification and centralization. In order to implement the policy of SBCD in our country efficaciously, this paper puts forward some suggestions aiming at the four aspects hereinbefore.