The Research Of Division Of Arts And Sciences In High School

The new round of high school curriculum reform, which highlights the selective courses, is underway. High school should firstly ensure that all students could achieve the basic academic requirements of high school level, and then, should provide as much opportunities and space for students'personality development as possible. This idea is also the inherent demand of quality-oriented education, which means that the basic education we offered to students should teach them how to choose what they want by themselves and guide them to make an autonomous self-development, so that to improve their comprehensive development and then to achieve the ultimate goal of improving quality of the whole nation.The discussion on division of arts and sciences has existed in our long education history for over 100 years. The result of such discussion changed over time and time, because of the changing background of social and cultural. At present, to meet needs of the new round of high school curriculum reform and the idea of quality-oriented education, this dissertation would like to discuss issues on "the rationality of division of arts and sciences", "critiques and issues of division of arts and sciences", and "the direction and solution of division of arts and sciences". The whole thesis includes five components:Part one is the introduction. A brief description of the significance and methods used of this study is presented here. Some related literature review are also be mentioned.Part two is about the history of division of arts and sciences in high school education. The author, from six different development stages, described the changes of and various opinions on division of arts and sciences from 1902 to present. Although different opinions are taken at certain social and cultural background, their discussions are all about how to deal with the conflict between students' comprehensive development and their personality development, integration of curriculum and division of curriculum as well as the basic function and preliminary function of high school education.Part three is about the reasonableness of division of arts and sciences. A set of basic thoughts and theories, which support the division of arts and sciences are presented. It is believed that to divide arts and sciences consistents with the law of psychological development of children, is good for students to develop their various and special features and can improve learning efficiency. Besides, it also conforms with the requirement of talent selection from higher education and of specialization from social division of labour.Part four is about some critiques and reflection on division arts and sciences. This chapter pointed out that it restraints students'comprehensive development and cannot offer student reasonable knowledge structure to divide arts and sciences. Especially, under the climate of quality-oriented education and new round of high school curriculum reform, the single mode of division of arts and sciences limits the overall function of curriculum and cannot offer students various selective choices, so that it cannot satisfy the requirements of students and society.The final part is about the direction of division of arts and sciences. After discussion on the advantage and disadvantages of division of arts and sciences, the author suggested that the division of arts and sciences should observe some principles, which the curriculum development should always focus on students' comprehensive, autonomous and personal development and should offer students as many choices as possible. Besides, the author also pointed out some trategies to improve the structure of high school curriculum so as to make it more selective to meet the various needs of students and society.