Exploring Maker Education From The Perspective Of Curriculum

Maker movement originating from America has swept the world,in the era of the deep integration of information technology and production technology,and technological innovation known as the driving force of social progress.Maker culture has become a form of presenting innovation and common development,so its spirit increasingly arises thinking and resonating among the education institutions and education workers.Maker education is rapiedly expanding at home and abroad,but for the education,leaving curriculum to promote the development of the students have the order reversed.It is desirable to study the ideal state of maker education to pursue the perfective implementation,but we need more to explore its actual state to make it conform to the objective demand.The curriculum establishes the bond which encourages the transformation of the ideal state to the actual state.That is to say,the idealized concepts need to be fused into the elements of education to improve practice.Thus,studying maker education in the perspective of curriculum can not only help practitioners improve their understanding of the potential meaning of maker education Curriculum text,activate the working thought,but also help researchers reflect on and improve their research,so as to promote the sustainable development of maker education.The paradigms combination of curriculum development and curriculum understanding is the essence of subject research.Through literature reviews,the author found that although the research paradigm had changed from curriculum development to curriculum understanding,practitioners still confused about what to do because it only drew out the blueprint for the curriculum practice,and lacked of specific technical support.Although the paradigm of curriculum development which pursues excessively fine technology would ignore the teachers and students leading to obtain ideal practical effect difficultly,the curriculum understanding will be impossible to be achieved without the support of technology.For maker education,every teacher is a beginner,so the technologies play an important role in the curriculum implementation.As a result.the combining of curriculum development and curriculum understanding,the fusion of strategy model and meaning interpretation can truly reflect the incarnate of curriculum study.On that basis we formed the following research views.First of all.in the aspect of the analysis of the maker education essence,discover the nature of’ maker education starting by background and cultural history.After considering the understanding of the established understanding,finds the essence is"creative learning under the technical support",and implementation of the "whole-person development" in the core of creativity training.In addition,the author thinks maker education is the transmission and update of traditional culture after a multidimensional review;Secondly,in the aspect of theoretical basis,explores the theoretical basis of the course on the basis of the previous studies.That is the philosophy of humanist technology,creativity psychology and constructionism,which respectively provide philosophical basis,cognitive basis and theoretical support for the research,and discusses thought origins,basic ideas and the insight of research one by one.Thirdly,in the aspect of curriculum objective,determines the foundation of curriculum goal setting which contains the principle and source of the goal setting,basic orientation which contains the proposition of value and form,target system which are expounded from the perspective of macro,meso and micro views,because the goal setting is not onl y to build on the basis of deep understanding of maker education,but also pay attention to the general law.Fourthly,in the aspect of curriculum content,build the core content,divide the content of the different learning phase,and put forward the organization way based on the characteristics of maker education and the thought of"work line".Fifthly,in the aspect of curriculum implementation,explains the required principle of curriculum implementation,determines the conditions of the smooth implementation of curriculum On the basis of dialogue with experts,expounds the design process and cases of the two kinds of implementation pathes of based on project and design thinking.Finally,in the aspect of curriculum evaluation,puts forward the three principles of curriculum evaluation should be followed,constructs the evaluation model with the help of five dimensions form(people,things,matter,situation and veins)and on the research of teachers and students,to help them reflect on curriculum evaluation function,form the scientific,sustainable and orderly promotion,and expounds the applicable scope and useful of qualitative classroom observation,portfolio assessment and grade evaluation.