Research On School-based Curriculum Development Of Rural Small-scale Schools

Curriculum structure affects student’s quality structure.China is a vast country with obvious differences in education and different conditions in schools.The emergence of local curricula and school-based curriculums have perfected and developed the national unified curriculum structure and value space.It can take into account the differences and needs of school education and curriculum setting so that the school curriculum can better serve the development of students and the quality improving of schools.Now,the prominent problems of China’s education are reflected in rural education,the core contradiction of rural education focuses on school education,and the biggest shortcoming of rural school education belongs to rural small-scale schools.Developing fair and quality education,promoting balanced and coordinated education development between urban and rural demand that we must make a great effort at bottom,insist on adding the short board,strengthing the weakness and holding the bottom line so as to make greet efforts to solve the education problems of rural small-scale schools.All among them,the curriculum construction is the key breakthrough,the development of school-based curriculum is a favorable way,which plays an important role in student training,school improvement and education reform.Base on the academic achievements and the empirical investigation of rural small-scale schools,this research takes Hongfeng rural primary school as instrumental case to implement the empirical research.It shows that the school-based curriculum development activities in Hongfeng primary school generally indicate the value justification,realistic necessity,practical feasibility and fundamental poin,which can provide new theoretical growth space for understanding the attributes and characteristics of school-based curriculum in small-scale rural schools.School-based curriculum development in rural small-scale school has the attribute such as fuction compensation between three-level curriculum systems,service for rural society development,cultural promotion for rural civilization,practical exploration of native knowledge and psychological fit of student experience.Also it has the characteristics such as value orientation of agricultural,native tendency of curriculum culture,simplicity property of curriculum structure,deep cooperation of curriculum construction and openness of curriculum practice.In general,taking native culture identity as the value choice,taking the depth reform as the thinking way,taking school and community interaction as the mechanism,taking peoples’ comprehensive development as the education pursuit,taking the education quality improving as the reform vision,taking beautiful country construction as the service orientation can exert the overall logical and practical guiding significance for the development of school-based curriculum in rural small-scale schools.This set of methodology has systematic functions in student growth,school development,community building,social services and cultural inheritance which extremely meet the basic position of national strategy,social development,education reform and talents training in the future.Rural small-scale schools are widespread and will continue to exist.The social foundation of school education and the unbalanced and insufficient development situation of rural small-scale schools determined the need to promote the structural reform in supply-side of education.Trying to improve the supply quality,to enhance the supply efficiency,to increase the supply quantity and to optimize the supply methods is the immediate need to crack the contradictions for the development of rural small-scale schools.Rural small-scale schools are facing the new historical opportunities and strategic possibilities in the New Era which will have profound changes in quantity,quality,scale and benefits.Also it will lead to adaptive change for school-based curriculum development.This will give full play to the construction of curriculum system for small-scale rural schools,to the students’ individual personality growth,to the teachers’ professional development,to the school’s characteristics construction and to the improvement of social service capabilities.