Curriculum Culture: Implication, Value Orientation and Constructional Strategy

Curriculum culture attracts more and more attention with the deepening of educational reform. In a broad sense, curriculum culture includes the material culture, the system culture and the spirit culture of curriculum. The first two cultures compose the outer layers of curriculum culture and the spiritual culture forms the core of curriculum culture. The value orientation of curriculum culture are embodied in the following aspects. Seeing from the view of cultural origin and development, curriculum culture should represent the characteristics of the nation and the era. Seeing from the view of the levels of culture, curriculum culture is supposed to handle correctly the knowledge, skill and wisdom, to build the excellent and free mind of human being so as to carry out the value of curriculum culture on educating people. Curriculum culture attaches more importance to human development, whose final value is on life value and on experiencing the depth of life. The construction of curriculum culture should stick to the human-centered idea and the idea of seeking common grounds while reserving difference, guard against acting rashly and pay more attention on the hardware while less attention on software, handle correctly the internal and external relation.