Development And Utilization Of Museum Curriculum Resources For Primary School Students

With continuous development of the curriculum reform and publicity of museums in recent years,taking full advantages of course resources in museum has been a new highlighted issue for domestic museum education theory and practice.The paper,from the particular aspect of museum education,is going to expose the possible crux that Shanxi Museum and Provincial museum in China in their exploitation of course resources and propose a construction strategy based on the previous practices through methods of literature research,data collection,investigation and analysis of the present exploitation degree of primary school course in Shanxi Museum.The preface explained the purpose and significance of this research firstly and highlights the particularity of the research aspect.The preface,based on the development of course resources of primary school students both in the museum at home and abroad,not only told the research focus and scope,but also demonstrated the research methods.In the second chapter,The materials of the primary school course resources in Shanxi Museum was shown not only to analysis its history,organization forms,curriculum structure and implementation mode,but also to review the current situation.The investigation date reinforced the effect of curriculum development.Meanwhile,the lack of supporting education theory,proper curriculum system,participation of schools,completed assessment system and the negative position of museum,are all the cruxes that existed in the corporation between Shanxi Museum and schools.In the following two chapters,discussion was carried on the level of theory and practice of curriculum resource development,such as the boundary,the depth of curriculum resources development,development process and the establishment of evaluation system.Furthermore,the suggestions were offered for primary school curriculum resources on development in Shanxi Museum and other museums in China.The conclusion was drawn as follows:the scientifically and systematically advancing of museum curriculum resources development needed the joint efforts of the system,policy,theory and practice.Firstly,the support of system and policy was the basic guarantee and direction.Secondly,schools and museums should both respect their culture and benefits since both of them were the bases for the resources development for the primary schools,and the latter would be the main direction of museums.Thirdly,development of museum curriculum resources made use of the pedagogy curriculum concept,but,in the process of curriculum development,we should think more about the particularity and independence of museums.Before borrowing of the conception of school curriculum,we should give full play to the strength of museum substantial resources and break the limitations of traditional classroom teaching,putting great emphasis on cultivating and inspiring interest,setting a specific gradual objective which aimed the lifelong learning as a macro goal,combining their cognitive level.Fourthly,on the prospects for the development,the key points of present museum curriculum resources development were invention of scientific,comprehensive and systematic curriculum,visitors researches and theoretical foundation.