On Philosophy Of Zhou Qingyuan’s Reading Teaching And The Enlightenment For Today’s Chinese Curriculum Reform

As reading teaching is one of the primary part of Chinese language education, the reading teaching reform has been always playing a very important role in Chinese curriculum reform. Though today’s Chinese curriculum reform is growing vigorously which has won many achievements on making much of students’ personality and enhancing their learning initiative, it has many problems such as lacking of sufficient theoretical preparation and being anxious for success when ignoring rigorous rational attitude and experimental energies. Under the instruction of such a Chinese curriculum reform, many problems have been brought about which ought to be solved urgently. Firstly, many teachers neglect the diversity of teaching methods. They highly praise brisk and lively classroom atmosphere while abandon many excellent reading teaching methods that comes from the traditional Chinese education. Secondly, many teachers do not understand the core idea of the curriculum reform. They look after the new things sightlessly and tell the high from the lower via whether it is the latest or not. Thirdly, many teachers are so anxious for success that they set up their teaching goals too large to put them into effect because of which they gain achievements hardly. Besides all the problems above, there are someone who take Chinese subject for easy access giving instructions as officers or leaders. They take Chinese education as the way to gain fame and fortune while gravely hindering the development of Chinese curriculum reform. In order to solve all the problems above, today’s Chinese education reform especially the reading teaching reform urgently needs rigorous theoretical basis and really feasible implementation strategy to give guidance.Professor Zhou Qingyuan is a famous Chinese education researcher and advisor for Ph. D candidate who has been studying and teaching theories on Chinese curriculum and teaching for a long period of time. He take charge in16provincial research projects and compose more than80books and100articles. His abundant teaching experience and research achievements provides solid theoretical basis and guidance for Chinese reading teaching.Here the thesis is gonging to make studies on Zhou’s philosophy for Chinese reading teaching on the foundation of studying his fundamental theories on Chinese education. Then the thesis will deeply analyze today’s reading teaching by putting Zhou’s philosophy onto the background of curriculum reform. The thesis is divided into three parts including introduction and literature review, main body and conclusion. The introduction and literature review part will explain the reason to choose this issue and its value. The main body of the thesis will discuss Zhou’s philosophy on Chinese reading teaching and its instructive significance for today’s Chinese curriculum reform.Chapter1contains thoughts on basic intension in Zhou’s Chinese education from4parts including views on Chinese discipline’s nature, views on Chinese teaching’s purpose, views on Chinese curriculum and views on teaching subject. Chapter2introduces Zhou’s rhetoric question on two basic concept in reading teaching including how to deal with the connection between teachers and teaching materials as well as the connection between unit teaching and single piece of article teaching. Chapter3is the most important part of this thesis which will take a deep look in Zhou’s thoughts on constructing teaching mode for literature and non-literature text with his teaching mode on reading. Chapter4tells the enlightenment of Zhou’s reading teaching philosophy that brings to the teachers in the Chinese curriculum reform. At last, the conclusion part totally summarize the value and importance of Zhou’s reading teaching philosophy.