1, subject-centered curriculum theory:
Subject-centered curriculum theory advocates that the purpose of school education is to pass on the cultural and scientific knowledge accumulated by human beings for thousands of years to the next generation, and the essence of these cultural and scientific knowledge is contained in all disciplines set up by schools.
2, activity center curriculum theory:
The representative figures are Dewey of the United States and his student Ke Qubo. It is argued that the content of education should be closely related to children's social life experience, and the content and structure of the curriculum should be designed with children's activities as the center to make the curriculum meet children's interests and needs.
3, social center theory:
Curriculum theory holds that the focus of curriculum should be the problems of contemporary society, the main functions of society, social phenomena that students care about, social transformation and social activity plans.
4. Big curriculum theory
Explanation of nouns in the theory of grand curriculum: a discipline that takes curriculum as the research object in the field of educational science. It not only studies the external conditions of the curriculum, but also studies the internal structure of the curriculum. Its branches include curriculum goal theory, curriculum design and development theory, curriculum implementation theory, curriculum evaluation theory, curriculum reform theory, curriculum management theory and so on.
On the one hand, it is related to and restricted by educational objectives and training objectives, which is the concrete embodiment of training objectives and the basis for realizing educational objectives; On the other hand, it links and restricts the teaching forms and methods. What kind of courses and their contents determine the corresponding teaching forms and methods.
5. Curriculum theory
It is a book published by Renmin University of China Press on 20 10. As a branch of pedagogy, its research field mainly involves the theory and practice of school curriculum design, compilation, implementation and curriculum evaluation. Since the pre-Qin period, educators in China have made many expositions on this field, but curriculum theory, as a formal research field, has only a short history in China. Investigating the history of curriculum theory can not only help us find the central problem in this field.