Junior High School Social Curriculum Implementation Exploration

Since the second half of 20th century, curriculum integration has been an important trend of elementary education reform in the world. It is the same case in China, where specialized curriculum and integrated curriculum, such as, 'science', 'history and society', 'art', are set coherently in the middle school. Social studies curriculum integrates the knowledge of various arts, being an important integrated one, it can not only help the students look at the world from the integrative and overall perspectives, but also help them understand and adapt to the society. Social studies curriculum is specially important to students' development, but Chinese scholars haven't paid much attention to studying it. Why? One reason is that specialized curriculum is emphasized particularly on elementary education for a long time; the other is the short history of social studies curriculum. Even if there is this kind of studies, they care more about the theory than the implementation. However, the implemental effects play an important role in the maintenance and development of the curriculum. Therefore, it is necessary to further study the specific implementation.Sometimes, the models of implementing resulted in some problems. At present, two models, favored and criticized by people, have been put into practice. They touch the attitude of curriculum practitioners and the choice of junior high schools. However, whichever is adopted, theorists and practitioners should maintain a clear cognition of the problems. Otherwise there are no effective measures to solve it.In accordance with the practical investigation and information in related resources, the implementation can't satisfy us. There are still many problems, such as imperfect curriculum text, bad adaptable ability of teachers, lagging studies of curriculum evaluation, ignorance of schools and outside world, shortage of curriculum resources and so on. In order to solve them, we should recognize social studies curriculum in our awareness and create a good environment, especially strengthen the pre-service and in-service teacher education.