Study On The Establishment Of The Curriculum For The Masters Of Vocational And Technical Pedagogy

How to make the curriculum for vocational pedagogy Masters better serve our vocational education? How to meet the needs of universities, research departments and administration institutions and let the vocational pedagogy Masters become experts in the field of vocational education in order to promote reform and development of vocational education and better serve our social economy? This problem deserved great attention among the academic circle of vocational education at present.The author first makes clear some relative concepts of curriculum for vocational pedagogy Masters and explores its theories. Secondly, in order to get the actual data about curriculum statues of vocational pedagogy Masters, the author issues quite a lot of questionnaires and interviews. The author makes a survey among Masters who major in vocational pedagogy from 5 universities respectively. There are three aspects including course offering on theory; practical training of scientific research and improving of knowledge and ability. Moreover, this survey also includes some tutors' opinions, attitudes and suggestion about the present curriculum for vocational pedagogy Master's course. The author draws a conclusion about the reason for the present problem of curriculum for vocational pedagogy Masters from the perspective of social and personal development.The author finally gives the following specific advice on how to improve the curriculum for vocational pedagogy Masters. Firstly, curriculum setting should under certain political guidances and adhere to some principles such as scientific principle, comprehensive principle, many-faceted principle and precedent principle. Secondly, curriculum setting should give prominence to its own distinguishing feature. Thirdly, when setting curriculum, we should treat the education goal with a dynamic sight, attach importance to its suitability and flexibility, consider its future trend and provide some related interdisciplinary course resources. Besides, the author has emphasized that there are four primal problems in course offered: enhancing the close corporation with the related field, attaching importance to the practice validity of scientific research, paying attention to the probing studying habit and method, and adopting the multi-element evaluations to the students' ability.