Enlightenment of Tacit Knowledge Theory to Classroom Teaching Reform in Primary and Secondary Schools

Tacit theory has been getting increasing attention and its influences on teaching theories and practices are getting more and more profound, providing enlightenment for China’s classroom reform. With reference to this theory, there exist some problems with the class in China’s primary and secondary schools such as teacher-dominated concept which ignores the students as the subject, traditional lecturing-centered method, examination oriented evaluation of teaching. To solve these problems, we should pay attention to the subjectivity of and differences between shift teaching focus from teacher to students, change teaching method from knowledge imparting to dialogue teaching, stress the interchange between tacit and explicit knowledge, and adopt multi-dimensional evaluations of teaching, etc.