The educational theory and thoughts of Ralph Taylor, a famous American educator, not only have a far-reaching impact on the curriculum construction of primary and secondary schools in China, but also have a guiding role in the curriculum reform of higher vocational colleges in China. It provides a widely used curriculum research paradigm for people, which leads people to think about the methodology of curriculum research.

This curriculum system has laid a basic framework for specific curriculum practice research.

Of course, this goal-setting model places too much emphasis on scientificity, operability and proceduralization, which will also hinder teachers and students from playing an active role in the application process and making use of other potential educational content, so that teachers are strictly limited by goals and affect the further development and research of curriculum content, and students are also strictly controlled by teachers in the experience and situation they should learn.

Extended data

In the book Basic Principles of Curriculum and Teaching published by Taylor, he clearly pointed out at the beginning that any formulation of curriculum and teaching plan must answer four basic questions:

First of all, what educational goals should schools strive to achieve?

Second, what educational experiences can be provided that are likely to achieve these goals?

Third, how to organize these educational experiences effectively?

Fourthly, how can we ensure that these goals are being achieved?

These four basic problems-determining educational goals, choosing educational experience (learning experience), organizing educational experience and evaluating educational experience-constitute the famous Taylor principle.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Taylor Principle