The Basic Research Of Anthropology Course

On the basic of anthropological concepts, principles and methods, anthropological basis of the curriculum clarifies how does anthropology effect the curriculum research, curriculum design, curriculum goals, curriculum implementation and curriculum evaluation, which are the fundamental issues in curriculum area.The study on anthropological foundation of the curriculum will deepen and expand the theoretical basis of the curriculum. It can also help us examine the curriculum phenomena and issues from a broader perspective, find theoretical basis for curriculum reform and guide the development of curriculum.The previous studies on basis of the curriculum pay more attention to philosophy, psychology, and sociology, etc. The curriculum researches from an anthropological perspective are rare. We collect information at two aspects. They are curriculum research from an anthropological perspective and the elaboration of curriculum in educational anthropology research. Through analysis of relevant data, we found that the studies have involved a wide range, but there are many important issues have not been related to still now. There are many speculative researches, but only a handful of field-work. The research is still at a shallow level. Also it is poor in systemic.Anthropological way of thinking, research methods and basic principles provide a basis for us to understand the course fully. Anthropology tells us that curriculum research should do some filed-work. Ethnography makes curriculum research have the characteristics of qualitative research. It requires researchers to have more capacity. Looking at the question in his vision contributes to the achievement of equality between the people in research. Cultural analysis may open the horizons of curriculum studies. To design curriculum from an anthropological perspective, horizons get expanded, multiple of subjects have the opportunity to participate in curriculum design, also it helps get rid of the culture hegemony. The object of curriculum is to achieve real liberation of people, solute the contradiction between universality and personality reasonably, to handle the relationship between human development and personality development correctly. Anthropology helps us face cultural conflicts in classroom, design teaching time and space in full range, develop curriculum resources openly. In curriculum evaluation, anthropology tell us to take the multi-value orientation into account, expand the horizons of the evaluation, emphasize the evaluation of the authenticity and situational in evaluation, absorb the multiple subjects to participate in curriculum evaluation.