College Based Curriculum Development

As the development of the economy, our country has attached great importance to the development of the higher vocational education since 1970s, publicizing a series of policies and measures to enhance the reform and the progress of the higher vocational education. Owning to these policies and measures, the scale of our country's higher vocational education has been developing very quickly, and the number of the vocational colleges has got a substantial increase.Although the higher vocational education is one part of the higher education, its teaching content, curriculum design, raising pattern, and the teaching team have a big difference from those of the higher education and the basic education. To some extent, the higher vocational education is the vocational educational in a higher level. The curriculum is the tool to realize the aim of the higher vocational education, and is the key of deciding the quality of the higher vocational education. The curriculum reform is the core and also the most complicated part of the educational reform, and the school-based curriculum development is an important component of the curriculum reform. The school-based curriculum development refers to the activities that according to the specific scientific and economical development situations the colleges organize the teachers which are the main part of the team, some professionals from the enterprise and experts of editing the curriculum to develop the curriculum system to meet the fostering aim of the higher vocational education and the need of the students'development. The higher vocational school-based curriculum development can carry out the curriculum reform according to the specific situations of the colleges and the specific development of the regional economy. So it not only can adapt to the changes of the markets and the economy but also can manifest the characteristics of the college, which can make sure the students are competitive after they graduate. So this is very important for the college to promote its development. As the rapid development of the science and the technology and the global trend of the economical development, the development of the school-based curriculum is becoming more and more important, and it has been one of the most important research topics in the vocational higher education institution.The research of the higher vocational educational school-based curriculum development uses the decisions of the state council about the deepening the educational reform and enchanging the quality-oriented education, the decisions of the state council about enchancing the reform and the development of the vocational education as the guiding ideology, through consulting the documents make the theoretic research on the higher vocational educational school-based curriculum development, and takes the studying on the research topic of the foreign language college of the ShanDong Vocational College of Science and Technology as the particular case to prove the theory. The thesis will discuss the four following questions: the outline of the higher vocational educational school-based curriculum development, the studying of the higher vocational educational school-based curriculum development using the foreign language college of the ShanDong Vocational College of Science and Technology as the particular case, the existing questions and the analysis for the higher vocational education school-based curriculum development, the strategy of the higher vocational educational school-based curriculum development. The whole thesis is divided into three parts:The first, from such four aspects as the connotation, significance, feature and idea ,the thesis summarizes the documents on the higher vocational education school-based curriculum development.The second, the thesis takes the studying on the research topic of the foreign language college of the ShanDong Vocational College of Science and Technology as the particular case to prove the theory. Through the means of watching and investigation, recording the whole process of the school-based curriculum development, including the necessity, the conditions, the mode, the procedures and the achievement and the questions of launching the thesis aims to make practical study on the higher vocational education school-based curriculum development.The third, through referring to the documents and absorbing the experience of the studying of the higher vocational educational school-based curriculum development made by the foreign language college of the ShanDong Vocational College of Science and Technology, the thesis raises the procedures and the strategy of the higher vocational educational school-based curriculum development, including the preliminary stage, design stage, implementing stage, and the judging stage, and the content of the studying. And this thesis also raises some constructive suggestions on activities of the higher vocational educational school-based curriculum development launched by the foreign language college of the ShanDong Vocational College of Science and Technology.Through integrating the research method of studying the documents, the research method of studying the particular case, the research method of investigation, and the research method of watching to study this research topic, and making use of the research method of induction and comparison, this thesis puts forward some new ideas on the higher vocational educational school-based curriculum development. On the whole, the ideas put forward in this thesis are based on the full investigation.The research on the higher vocational educational school-based curriculum development is a very tough topic in the study of the higher vocational education, we still have a long way to go. Because the reform and the development of the curriculum is the core of the reform of the higher vocational education, as the rapid development of the science and the technology and the global trend of the economical development, the studying on the theory of the higher vocational educational school-based curriculum development will absolutely get great achievement. I hope this thesis can catch your eye on the development of the higher vocational educational school-based curriculum, and can enlighten you on this research topic.