Sir john franklin bobbitt (author) is an American educator, a professor of educational management at the University of Chicago, and a writer. His theory and practice of curriculum development started the scientific movement of curriculum development. As a pioneering work of curriculum theory, the publication of this book profoundly influenced the curriculum reform movement in the United States in the first half of the 20th century.

Bobbitt's Curriculum was published in the United States in 19 18. It is the first monograph on curriculum theory in the history of world education, which laid the foundation of modern curriculum theory. The curriculum theory put forward by bobbitt nearly a century ago still seems to have important reference significance.

For the first time in China, a complete Chinese translation of Curriculum was published, which accurately reproduced bobbitt's thought of curriculum writing. Professor Zheng of Beijing Normal University gave a long preface to the Chinese translation and provided a detailed reading guide.

Course translator, Ph.D. in Education, Hiroshima University, now working in Beijing Normal University. The main translations are: Letters from Dewey, Oracle Bone Inscriptions's Little Dictionary, and Cultivating Wisdom's Faith and Unbelief.

The main idea of this course is:

Curriculum is a series of instructive experience aimed at the mistakes that can't be solved by general and unguided training, and it is a professional subject knowledge that individuals can't obtain through unguided education and experience.

Curriculum designers should focus on the future development of human society and tap the demand for guiding vocational training from the defects of the working world (low efficiency of workers, low efficiency of management organization and guidance, etc.). ), and provide a series of courses to solve the defects, so as to complete the teaching mission of promoting the development of social majors and educating the next generation.

Education is complete when the educated use what they have learned in the course to control their behavior and cultivate their habits.

Courses should prepare students for adult life in modern industrial society; Courses should prepare students for adult life in industrial society; Courses should not only meet the needs of individuals, but also take into account the needs of society; The compilation of the course should be based on extensive social research, and anything that students don't need in their future work and life should not be included in the course.