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Sociological Analysis of School Curriculum

Yang Yu

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Curriculum is an object which is widely used and has multiple meanings.Philosophy,psychology and sociology are the basic perspectives for studying curriculum.In China before 1990s,the study of curriculum was mainly based on philosophy and psychology,whereas the study of curriculum in the perspective of sociology was relatively weak.With the in-depth reform of the basic education curriculum,there has been a huge controversy over the curriculum reform,which might be caused by the different understandings of school curriculum.This paper elaborates from the sociological perspective on the source of curriculum,curriculum decision-making,and implementation of curriculum etc.,hoping to help rethink school curriculum and to build a deeper understanding of school curriculum.

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Curriculum is an object which is widely used and has multiple meanings.Philosophy,psychology and sociology are the basic perspectives for studying curriculum.In China before 1990s,the study of curriculum was mainly based on philosophy and psychology,whereas the study of curriculum in the perspective of sociology was relatively weak.With the in-depth reform of the basic education curriculum,there has been a huge controversy over the curriculum reform,which might be caused by the different understandings of school curriculum.This paper elaborates from the sociological perspective on the source of curriculum,curriculum decision-making,and implementation of curriculum etc.,hoping to help rethink school curriculum and to build a deeper understanding of school curriculum.

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Curriculum is an object which is widely used and has multiple meanings.Philosophy,psychology and sociology are the basic perspectives for studying curriculum.In China before 1990s,the study of curriculum was mainly based on philosophy and psychology,whereas the study of curriculum in the perspective of sociology was relatively weak.With the in-depth reform of the basic education curriculum,there has been a huge controversy over the curriculum reform,which might be caused by the different understandings of school curriculum.This paper elaborates from the sociological perspective on the source of curriculum,curriculum decision-making,and implementation of curriculum etc.,hoping to help rethink school curriculum and to build a deeper understanding of school curriculum.

Key concepts: Curriculum, Curriculum theory, Emergent curriculum, Curriculum mapping, Sociology, Perspective (graphical), Sociological imagination, Pedagogy

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