Humanism Curriculum Theory And The Teaching Of History

The theory of Humanistic Curriculum is a curriculum theory emerged in the "counter-culture" movement of western countries in the sixty or seventy’s of the last century. Although the system has not yet formed a systematic theory, but it has its own unique perspective in course content, course organization, curriculum implementation, evaluation, etc. To promote human values and to promote training " complete human personality " concept is the core of this theory, which coincide with the new curriculum that is advocated by "all for the development of students "," develop the whole person" philosophy.In addition, the history as a subject of Humanities and Social Sciences in middle school, covering almost all aspects of human social and cultural life of the content. It has more advantages in the cultivation of students’perfect personality. So it’s necessary and possible to introduce the humanistic curriculum into the teaching of middle school history. In-depth study and implement the humanistic curriculum theory is of great significance to improve school history teaching and promote the development of middle school history teaching. This paper aims at a detailed interpretation which is based on the theory of humanistic curriculum and introduces the theory into the teaching of middle school history systematically, combined with my teaching practice in middle school. Using the relevant teaching theory and cases, analyzing and attempting to solve some problems under the background of the new curriculum in middle school history teaching reform,in order to benefit the reformation and development of middle school history teaching.The first part of the paper outlines the theory of humanistic curriculum, including the foundation and the formation of the theory,elaborates the connotation of humanism curriculum theory, and on this basis, summarizes the characteristics of humanism curriculum theory.The second part discusses the significance and the present situation of middle school history teaching implementation of humanism curriculum theory, analyzes the necessity and possibility of high school history curriculum practice humanism curriculum theory.Combined with my teaching practice and pointed out the manifestation and missing in history teaching.Moreover, analysis the reason of the absence of two aspects from the humanistic curriculum theory itself and the status of school history teaching.Third part of the paper introduces the humanistic school history teaching, trying to solve school history teaching in some problems.Mainly thinking of the three aspects:the setting of history curriculum goal, the selection of history curriculum content, the history curriculum implementation and making some personal views.