What does the "new course" mainly learn? Highlighting Shandong elements with Confucian culture of "Four Books and Five Classics"
Zhang Zhiyong, inspector of the Shandong Provincial Department of Education, said that the course "Chinese Excellent Traditional Culture" is a local compulsory course, and there are textbooks in primary schools, junior high schools and high schools. The primary school textbooks are published at the first level of the year, with a total of 6 volumes; There are 3 volumes in junior high school; There are 2 volumes of the Communist Party of China (CPC) in senior high school, one in senior one and one in senior two.
"Take China's excellent traditional cultural classics as the teaching content." Zhang Zhiyong said that the selection of classic content is mainly based on Confucian cultural classics, and the selection of Confucian culture is mainly based on the "Four Books and Five Classics", and also takes schools of thought contend and other appropriate classic content. Moreover, the writer should have accurate annotations and translations of the maxims and chapters in the textbook, and the selected bibliography needs reading guidance and necessary annotations. In order to make primary and secondary school students better understand, there are related people, events and stories.
In addition to learning Confucian culture and other classics, the textbooks also cover China's ancient etiquette, traditional festivals, calligraphy and painting, music and drama, as well as Chinese and foreign famous sayings, ancient and modern Chinese and foreign classic stories and world natural and cultural heritage. In particular, it highlights the regional cultural characteristics of Shandong, covering Qilu culture, Qilu geography and human landscape. As a local compulsory course, this textbook is mostly "Shandong element".
Why do you want to learn the "new course"? Let China's traditional culture better penetrate primary and secondary school students.
According to the relevant person in charge, the course "Excellent Chinese Traditional Culture" is offered and included in the compulsory course, mainly to make Chinese traditional culture better penetrate primary and secondary school students.
On the 23rd, the reporter saw the "sample" of this set of teaching materials. There are five versions of this textbook: primary school, junior high school and senior high school. Each city can "choose 1" and choose one of them as a compulsory course. After two rounds of examination by experts from the Ministry of Education, this set of textbooks is the first set of excellent Chinese traditional culture textbooks to enter the national education system.
At present, Chinese and history courses in compulsory courses in primary and secondary schools also contain contents about traditional culture. However, Zhang Zhiyong said that this set of teaching materials is independent, and the content of the course is not just a few famous sayings or historical stories, but systematic. More importantly, this set of teaching materials will explain the "misunderstanding" of traditional culture in today's era and let traditional culture return. For example, many modern people misread Confucius' statement that "learning is excellent and being an official". In fact, there is a saying in front of me that "learning is excellent." Learning to be excellent does not mean learning to be excellent, but learning to have spare capacity and surplus; Being an official does not mean being an official, but practicing. The original meaning of this sentence is that "if things are done well, they can be applied to study to make progress, and if there is spare capacity in study, they can be applied to practice", which discusses the dialectical relationship between study and practice, rather than "if you study well, you can be an official".