Compared with subject courses, activity courses have the following advantages:

First, attaching importance to students' needs and interests and respecting students' subjectivity are conducive to students' initiative and enthusiasm in learning;

Secondly, emphasizing the psychological organization of teaching materials is conducive to students' continuous development of personality in the process of interaction with cultural and scientific knowledge;

Thirdly, emphasizing practical activities and attaching importance to students' direct experience through personal experience is conducive to cultivating students' ability to solve practical problems;

Fourthly, attaching importance to the comprehensiveness of the curriculum and promoting the integration of various knowledge and social life issues are conducive to students' complete understanding of the world.

Disadvantages:

The limitations of activity curriculum are mainly manifested in exaggerating the importance of children's personal experience and ignoring the systematic study of subject knowledge, which is easy to lead to "utilitarianism";

Ignoring the development of children's thinking ability and other intellectual qualities often absolutes the role of individual experiences in children's daily life and ignores the logical order of these experiences themselves. As a result, students can only learn some fragmented knowledge and reduce the level of systematic knowledge.

Dominant value

The leading value of subject courses is to let students master, inherit and develop the cultural heritage of human system through courses, while the main value of activity courses is to let students engage in activities and gain direct experience and real experience of the real world.

And those can complement each other and complement each other. After 1970s, with the popularization of lifelong education and the development of educational psychology established by curriculum theory, activity curriculum has been given new meaning. The combination of subject courses and activity courses has become a development trend. "In the curriculum reform, activity courses are more important than ever.