How Is The " Model" Of New Curriculum Reform Possible?

This paper presents the growth of a weak rural middle school into the "model" of the new basic education curriculum reform in special policy background. In order to implement the policies of "Decision of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council on deepening education reform and promoting quality education "and the "Decision of the State Council on the basic education reform and development", the Ministry of Education decided to put forward the basic education curriculum reform and build the new basic education curriculum system that can meet the requirements of Quality Education. The new curriculum reform of basic education was officially launched in2001. It has been eleven years since the curriculum reform was carried out, but the result is not that satisfactory as we expected. Especially in rural areas, due to the lack of educational resources, the weakness of teachers and the left-behind children issues, the curriculum reform in rural areas is inadequate. But it is remarkable that a rural middle school in’the Northwest Shandong province made itself a "model" of the new basic education curriculum reform by successful reforms, and even builds its own brand. Taking D middle school as a case, this paper describes its growing process from concept, macro and micro perspective, and tried to interpret it with sociological theories.Based on the empirical investigation, the study draws the conclusions that:(1) The basis of the "model" are its aggressive acts on curriculum reform and class innovation, with all-round teaching management pattern, teaching pattern with postmodern characteristics and innovative teacher management pattern as its core. These effective patterns and measures not only ensure the advancement of the reform, but also the fundamental reason that attract educators to visit D middle school.(2) As the one who occupy the right to speak in educational fields, the governments, educational administrative departments, educational organizations and educational media put a variety of intangible resources into D middle school, and the symbolic power they made makes other main bodies in the educational fields such as other schools, teachers and students learn D middle school "willingly". Thus, with the co-work of the administrative department of education, educational media and other schools and teachers, the curriculum reform "model" status of D middle school has been established.(3)The informal system support, such as the intervention and operation of the guanxi behind the gaining of honor and resources, makes the status of the "model" more stable. During the developing process, besides its own successful reform, the intervention and the operation of guanxi is also a very important aspect, In China, the "human society", the intervention and operation of guanxi is an important way of development. Finally, the paper discusses what consequences it causes to the society. We draw the conclusions that the success of D middle school is in a special policy, so it cannot be replicated and generalized; the establishment of the "model" produced some positive function to both education and society, but it also has negative impact on regional balanced development of basic education. So besides establishing "model" for main bodies in educational fields, the government should accomplish the balanced development of education and promote educational equality at the same time.As one which is in the special background, D middle school has many factors that can make itself successful; this paper describes its developing process within a full and complete flame and digs the deep-seated reasons from three aspects. So this paper provides a new explanation of the successful of D middle school from the perspective of sociology.