William Sent Satisfied With The Concept Of Curriculum Renewal Movement

The history of curriculum is the important part of educational research field. During the development of curriculum theory, the reconceptualization movement is an important phase, and William Pinar is the famous spokesman in this movement. The article looks back the development history of the reconceptualization movement, from rising, flourishing to elapsing, and expounds Pinar s curriculum theory and its relationship to that movement.The article falls into four parts. The first part discusses the rising background of the movement. From J. Schwab's curriculum declaration, to D. Huebner and J. Macdonaid's initiated research, the movement germinated step by step. In that period, under the leading of the seniors of curriculum field, Pinar stepped into the curriculum research domain. As a reconceptualist of new generation, he mounted the curriculum stage and began to construct his curriculum theory system.The second part describes the development condition of the reconceptualization movement, and the role of the curriculum theory meetings, the Journal of Curriculum Theorizing, Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) and American Educational Research Association (AERA) in the movement. Pinar promoted actively the development of the reconceptualization movement. In the process, Pinar constructed his new curriculum theory text, namely the autobiographical text curriculum.The third part describes that the paradigm shift has finished in the curriculum domain after 1980s, from curriculum development to curriculum understanding. With the elapse of the movement, Pinar turned to understand curriculum as racial and gender text, paid attention to disadvantaged group in society, and took into account their needs. Moreover, Pinar also put forward that we should conform to the internationalization trend.The fourth part analyses the relationship between Pinar and the reconceptualization movement, and the evaluation about the movement and Pinars theory. The article also describes the effect of the movement and Pinar in American and the world curriculum field.