Curriculum published by 19 18 is the first monograph on curriculum theory in the history of education, which marks the birth of curriculum as an independent research field, thus establishing curriculum theory as a branch of pedagogy, and then a large number of powerful scholars and research achievements have emerged, such as Bruner, an American scholar, and his structuralist curriculum theory, Waggenshen, a German scholar and his paradigm. Influenced by the international political situation and poor information exchange at that time, curriculum researchers in China paid little attention to the localization transformation of copying, transplanting and introducing western theories.

Of course, in recent years, China is gradually building a local curriculum theory system, strengthening the connection with grass-roots curriculum practice, expanding the field and pattern of curriculum research, and deepening in many aspects such as curriculum research methods, curriculum modernization, curriculum form, curriculum experiment, discipline construction, thinking mode, learning mode change, core literacy landing, curriculum evaluation system, Internet technology-assisted teaching and so on, and has achieved a series of important research results based on national conditions and drawing lessons from international advanced experience.

In the future, curriculum theory research should try to correct the wrong tendency of "emphasizing basic research but neglecting applied research" or "emphasizing applied research and neglecting basic research", pay more attention to the close combination of theory and practice, continuously improve the scientific nature of curriculum theory, and effectively promote the construction of curriculum practice and subject knowledge; It is necessary to handle the dialectical relationship between learning from foreign achievements and inheriting historical accumulation, in-depth construction of a single discipline and cross-border integration of comprehensive courses; We should take root in China's rich and vivid practical experience of curriculum reform and absorb the beneficial elements of foreign advanced theories, and on this basis, we should create and construct China's localized and original curriculum theory system.