At the beginning of the 20th century, with the completion of the transition from agricultural society to industrial society in the United States, the development of emerging monopoly capitalism, the growth of the middle class group caused by the urbanization process, the contradiction between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat in the capitalist society intensified, and the democratic politics of the bourgeoisie was threatened, precisely to rebuild capitalist democratic politics and adapt to the new changes of the times. John dewey (1859 ~ 1952) criticized the traditional education represented by German psychologist and educator Johann Friedrich Herbert (1776 ~ 18 14), and proposed that the reform should be teacher-centered. Traditional education mode centered on classroom and teaching materials. After the end of World War II, the two superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union, entered the cold war stage with scientific, technological, economic and military competition as the core. 1In June, 957, the Soviet Union successfully launched the world's first artificial earth satellite, which marked that the Soviet Union began to lead the United States in space technology in the US-Soviet hegemony. In order to regain its dominant position in the competition with the Soviet Union, 1958 was issued in September, the first important post-war education bill, the National Defense Education Act 1958, which authorized the federal government of the United States to assist education by means of financial allocation, so as to cultivate talents who can meet the needs of national defense in both quality and quantity. In order to impart scientific knowledge and methods to young students, September 1959 was held in the Federal Education Bureau, the National Science Foundation and the Air Force. With the support of RAND Corporation, the American Academy of Sciences and the American Association for the Advancement of Science organized a meeting attended by 35 scientists, scholars and educators in Woods Hole, Cape Cod, to discuss how to improve natural science education in primary and secondary schools in the United States, thus opening the prelude to curriculum reform in the United States. The curriculum reform of discipline structure led by Jerome Seymour Bruner (195438+05 ~) triggered the subsequent global curriculum reform.