A Research On Integrated Curriculum Types Of Elementary Social Studies

Curriculum integration is one of the hot spots in education research at the present. Elementary social studies is a typical integrated curriculum. This paper is directed against the single of elementary social studies integrated types, that is subject with subject integrated curriculum. Considering the systematization of student, teacher, curriculum selection and environment, the author design new curriculum types from the view of superior structure of curriculum essential factors, those curriculum essential factors are student, teacher, curriculum selecting and social environment. In accordance with the interactive relation of curriculum essential factors and learner-centered, the author pose four curriculum types. Those are peer-group integrated curriculum, teacher-student integrated curriculum, self-discipline integrated curriculum, self-society integrated curriculum. Elementary social studies embodies and implements the aim 'personal socialization'. So the paper is aimed at 'personal socialization', and makes it main line, and uses social psychology, sociology and curriculum theory to design the four new curriculum types. The relation of the four types is equality, coexist. In curriculum implementation, we should apply them flexibly, especially make them work in coordination in order to achieve good effect.