Activity course introduction:
Activity courses are also called experience courses and children's center courses. It is a kind of course type as opposed to subject courses. It organizes courses centered on children's interest and motivation to participate in certain activities. Therefore, activity curriculum is also called motivation theory. Activity curriculum is a kind of curriculum that advocates organizing around children's interests and motives in certain activities and getting direct experience through children's personal experience.
The origin of activity curriculum:
The idea of activity curriculum can be traced back to Rousseau's "natural education thought". He advocated that education should liberate children from the bondage and oppression of society, return to the natural state of human beings and advocate natural education. He believes that education must adapt to the natural development of children, and the role of education is not to tell students some truth, but to teach them how to discover it.
It advocates releasing children into nature, and discovering and learning through exercise, work and observation in nature. Dewey is a representative figure of activity curriculum. He thinks that traditional subjects are too detailed, far from real life, ignoring children's interests and needs, and ignoring teachers' knowledge learning consultants and consultants.
Main viewpoints and characteristics of activity curriculum;
Key points:
The main viewpoints of activity curriculum are as follows: the curriculum should be centered on children's activities, not on subjects; Children's direct experience should be taken as the content of teaching materials; Attention should be paid to the psychological structure of children in the arrangement of teaching materials. Dewey believes that children have four kinds of instincts, which are correspondingly manifested as four kinds of activities: Chinese and social instincts and activities; The instinct and behavior of making.
And artistic instinct and activity; The instinct and behavior of inquiry. Courses should be based on these instincts and try to meet their requirements. He advocates that teaching materials should be psychological, and the teaching materials or knowledge of various disciplines should be restored to the original experience, which can be turned into children's personal direct experience through teaching.
Characteristics of activity courses:
The characteristics of activity classes can be summarized as follows: First, experience. Focus on learning through the acquisition and reconstruction of experience; Second, subjectivity. Taking respecting students' initiative as the starting point and goal of teaching; Third, comprehensiveness. Break the traditional discipline framework and take the theme of life as the learning unit; Fourth, the rural nature. Activities can be selected and carried out according to the characteristics of different regions.