The Research Of The Basic Curriculum Reform Based On The Key Ability In The Medium Vocational School

In today’s highly competitive society, parents usually regard scores and key schools as educational goals. However, ignoring specific conditions of each child and expecting excessively on attending key schools bring steadily increasing pressure not only on children’s mentality, but also their physical health. This research is intended to help parents rationally understand so-called key schools, realize negative consequences posed by excessive expectation on children in depth and further balance the educational expectation in order to improve the quality and utilize the value of expectation ultimately.This research explores excessive expectation on issues about enrolment of key schools from the perspective of parents and children and thus embodies theoretical and practical significance. This research, by literature or questionnaires, also analyzes the current status in which parents wish their children to attend key schools. Moreover, this paper analyzes negative consequences of expecting children to attend key schools overly, tries to locate the influential factors from various angles (children, parents, schools and society etc.), reveals the causes behind excessive expectation and finally puts forward practically effective measures.According to the research, parents do harbor the excessive expectation of sending their children to key schools, and such excessive expectation gives rise to four main problems:being quite partial, blind, idealistic and utilitarian. Behind these four problems are four factors that can be generally concluded as interrelationship among family members, a sound foundation of higher education necessitated by the succession of education, high profits yielded by better education and the need to be granted power through education. At the end of this research, corresponding policies have been proposed to counteract negative consequences brought by successive expectation. Children should have a clear auto-gnosis, positively treat their study and actively communicate with their parents about their thoughts and expectation. Parents, on the other hand, should change their conventional education ideas, deemphasize the concept of key schools, communicate with children energetically, respect children’s willingness and choices, concern about children’s current ability and physical and mental health, stand in line with values of children and reexamine the specific situation of key schools carefully as well.