Comparative Research On The Post-modern Perspective On Curriculum

From the end of the20th century to the early21st century, our scholars mainly discussedthe meaning and its characteristics of the post-modern curriculum. After that we turn into theperiod of critical reflection on the postmodern curriculum reform. According to the paststudies, we focuses on the respective research and few studies are in parallel comparisonbetween several scholars’ curriculum theory. Therefore, this paper explores and analyzes fourinternationally influential postmodern curriculum theory scholars (William F. Doll, Jr.,William F. Pinar, David Smith and Patrick Slattery) theory by comparing their curriculumtheories.This paper adopts the comparative research and theoretical study methods to graduallyanalyze their postmodern curriculum(the analysis of the theory of "intersection" and"complement")，then on the basis of this, to explore the ideas which can be applied to thecurriculum practice, and which can not.This paper is divided into four parts. First of all, we analyzes the intersect parts of thepost-modern curriculum from two aspects of "homeless" way of thinking and value of"individual care"; Secondly, we analyzes the complementary parts from two aspects: visualangle and its breadth, teachers’ view; in the perspective of postmodern curriculum, and basedon the Chinese context, we analyzes the advantages and disadvantages of post-moderncurriculum, thinking about how to integrate our curriculum with their post-modern curriculumtheory from the two perspective——the absorbing of curriculum implicit value and the applyof explicit method. Finally, to think about the concerns of our curriculum construction fromthe aspects of the traditional culture concept and school education reform reality.After the analysis and research of the postmodern curriculum theory, we find that theintrinsic value and the external impact of postmodern curriculum theory is not reduced as theimportant emphasis. First, today’s curriculum essence, curriculum contents, curriculum goalsand the relationship between teachers and students are all changing, The rise of life educationindicates that the course is developed as the student-irritated direction. Thus, some of thepostmodern curriculum theory still has the special significance of today’s curriculum. Second,according to our national conditions, we should learn to build our own course. Postmoderncurriculum theory integrates the advantages and disadvantages; we should take the essenceand discard the dross. But what we have to alert is that the advantages of the theory itself are not necessarily suitable for our education reality. We can think about how to construct ourown course.