Post-modern Turn Of Confucian Curriculum Idea

Confucian curriculum idea is an important constituent part of Confucian education system, which directly reflects the different mission, characteristics and developmental situation in each historical stage of Confucian education. Chinese culture is dominated by Confucian culture, thus, based on the systematical research of Confucian curriculum idea, the critically inheriting and creatively transcending will help us to develop indigenous curriculum theory, and also help us to bring rich cultural resources into the development of world curriculum theory, so that to take the more various and meaningful cultural forms into the field of curriculum. Furthermore, it will also help China's New Curriculum Reform to adapt the tradition of Chinese culture better.Based on the traditional Confucian curriculum idea, the post-modern turn of Confucian curriculum idea borrows the perspective and methodology of post-modernism, responds the main issues of the contemporary curriculum in post-modernism. Its main job is to use post-modernism as a tool to interpret and promote inherent value and contemporary meaning of Confucian curriculum idea. It also borrows the theory of post-modernism to diagnose and analyze the existing problems in modern curriculum. So that to construct a better post-modern developmental vision of Confucian curriculum idea, and promote the development of Confucian curriculum idea and the exertion of its time value. The ultimate factor effecting the exertion of Confucian curriculum idea's contemporary value lies in whether it can embark on the path of post-modernism, that is to say, whether it will achieve "a view towards the post-Confucian curriculum".The Paper is divided into the following seven parts: The first part is the introduction. In this part, the author briefly introduces the reason for this research and illustrates the theoretical and practical significance of this research. The author also analyzes and sorts out the previous related research findings, and shows the process and methods of this research.The second part is the historical development and characteristics of Confucian curriculum idea. The developmental process of Confucian curriculum idea has a clear skeleton from its emergence to the theoretical expansion, and it embodies its own different tendency and characteristics in every different historical period according to the needs of the specific development. In the general sense, Confucian curriculum system is society-oriented, which reflects the feelings of a primitive humanism, and its tenet is "honoring the nature of morality".The third part is the contemporary dilemma and response of Confucian curriculum idea. The relationship between Confucianism and the modernity is one of the main academic scopes of Neo-Confucians. However, this problem has still not been properly handled, hindering the development of Neo-Confucianism. At the same time, the modernity becomes an obstacle of Confucian curriculum idea. The current situation of Confucian curriculum idea is inconsistent with the modern society system, the modern ideologies and the modern education system. The clear awareness of Confucian curriculum idea's modern dilemma will help us to think of a better solution methods. According to the direction of social development, it is necessary to transcend the modernity and ponder over the development of Confucian curriculum idea in order to enhance the dynamic development of Confucian curriculum idea in modern times.The fourth part is an enlightenment brought about by post-modernism for the turn of Confucian curriculum idea. The development of Confucian curriculum idea must go through some transformations that transcend modernity. Either from the development of the times, or developmental trends of social and cultural spirit, post-modernity is an inevitable developmental path for Confucian curriculum idea. It is not unique that there is post-modern image flashing in Chinese traditional culture and Confucian curriculum idea, which is helpful for Confucian curriculum idea to absorb nutrients from post-modernism. At the same time, post-modernism also provides some methodological enlightenment for the turn of Confucian curriculum idea.The fifth part is the value interpretation of Post-modern turn of Confucian curriculum Idea, in which the author shows the position and attitude on the understanding and handling of Post-modern shift of Confucian curriculum Idea. The author believes that the value orientation for post-modern shift of Confucian curriculum idea includes basic position, value choice and value realization. The basic position includes the persistence in Marxist historical materialism and dialectics, rational recognition for post-modernism, the promotion of the fine traditional Chinese culture as well as the coordination between globalization and nationalization. And the representation of the Post-modern turn of Confucian curriculum Idea lies in the realization of the curriculum's care on individual life, the achievement of the development of individual freedom, the extension of the curriculum's ethical spirit and the establishment of reasonable curriculum subjectivity.The sixth part is the prospect of post-modernization of Confucian curriculum idea. The prospect is a response to the new challenges that modernity and post-modernism bring about in the curriculum field. The post-modern prospect of Confucian curriculum idea actually represents a "post-Confucian curriculum view". Structuring this prospect can not only accelerate the process of post-modern turn of Confucian curriculum idea, but also promote the diversification and localization of curriculum theory and improve the autonomous ability of the shift from traditional culture to modernistic one. More importantly the prospect provides a Post-modern view and methodology to review the modern curricula on the basis of keeping Confucian traditional curriculum idea. In this way some enlightenment will be provided to help the curriculum go out of modernistic dilemma.The seventh part is the enlightenment of the post-modern prospect of Confucian curriculum idea. There lies a great gap between the actual situation of the curriculum and the implication of teaching instruction in current schools and prospect of post-modernism of Confucian curriculum idea. The prospect of post-modernism of Confucian curriculum idea at least provides with some enlightenment in curriculum aim, the view of curriculum contents, curriculum implementation and curriculum management. All these help to refine the current curriculum and teaching reform, which can gradually develop toward this good expectation.