The Principle Of Whitehead’s Curriculum Setting

In twenty-first Century, Whitehead’s Organic Philosophy influence on the rise,Whitehead’s educational thoughts also for the deep organic philosophy basis and Whitehead life working in the background of education has attracted more and more attention, on Alfred North Whitehead education thought more and more people, but of few scholars to scattered in Whitehead’s book, he proposed the curriculum setting the basic requirements were combing and summary, this thesis is for the purpose of this make efforts to and the Whitehead curriculum principles of China’s primary and secondary schools curriculum four enlightenment. This paper is divided into four chapters:The first chapter is the introduction, which mainly explains the origin, the research status, the concept and the significance and innovation of Whitehead’s curriculum design.The second chapter mainly explores the philosophical basis of the formation of Whitehead’s curriculum principles, namely the principle of the process, the principle of relevance and the principle of creativity.Chapter three mainly explores and expounds the curriculum setting of the Whitehead of the five principles, namely:the principle of rhythm, the principle of attention concentration, the principle of need priority, the principle of life themes and the principle of school-based and on the analysis of the connotation of.Rhythm refers to the principle of the intellectual development of students is rhythmic, so to different stages in the development of the students, using different ways of curriculum and learning; the principle is to focus on the intellectual development for each cycle to retain a certain degree of focus, the different teaching contents, adjust to the cycle of each slave different subjects, avoid competition; need priority principle refers to the relevant subject setting order and content arrangement order, is not always easy to difficult, step by step, but according to the nature of children and the need to set the theme of life; refers to the principle of education is the theme of colorful life, our life should be perfect embedded into the curriculum; school-based refers to the principleof the school have the right set by the school teacher’s own development, with its special school Intrinsic course.The fourth chapter discusses the Whitehead’s curriculum setting principles of China’s primary and secondary schools curriculum four enlightenment: the intellectual development of students with rhythm, the curriculum should be observed the rhythm of the intellectual development of students; knowledge is an organism, the curriculum to enhance the overall course between; significance of respecting knowledge, curriculum content to to life as the theme; pay attention to the school’s own characteristics, improve school-based curriculum quality.