The advantages of activity courses include

Compared with subject courses, activity courses have the following advantages:

Paying attention to students' needs and interests and respecting students' subjectivity are conducive to students' initiative and enthusiasm in learning; Emphasizing the psychological organization of teaching materials is conducive to students' continuous development of personality in the process of interaction with cultural and scientific knowledge;

Emphasizing practical activities and attaching importance to students' direct experience through personal experience is conducive to cultivating students' ability to solve practical problems; Paying attention to the comprehensiveness of the curriculum and advocating the integration of various knowledge and social life issues are conducive to students' complete understanding of the world.

Activity curriculum, also known as experience curriculum and children-centered curriculum, is a kind of curriculum opposite to subject curriculum, which is organized around children's interest and motivation in certain activities. Therefore, activity curriculum is also called motivation theory.

The idea of activity curriculum can be traced back to Rousseau, a French naturalistic educational thinker. 1At the end of the 9th century and the beginning of the 20th century, Dewey and Ke Qubo in the United States carried forward this idea, and Dewey's curriculum was "experience curriculum" or "Children's Center Curriculum".

Its basic characteristics are:

First, all learning comes from experience, and learning is the transformation or reorganization of experience; Secondly, it advocates that learning must be related to personal special experience, and teaching must start from the learners' existing experience; Thirdly, it advocates breaking the strict discipline boundaries, expanding the learning units and organizing teaching materials step by step, and emphasizing learning in activities, from which teachers can play a helping role.

The main points of the activity course are:

Curriculum should focus on children's activities, not on subjects; Children's direct experience should be taken as the content of teaching materials; Attention should be paid to the psychological structure of children in the arrangement of teaching materials. Dewey believes that children have four kinds of instincts, which are correspondingly manifested as four kinds of activities: Chinese and social instincts and activities; The instinct and activity of manufacturing; The instinct and activity of art;

The instinct and behavior of inquiry. Courses should be based on these instincts and try to meet their requirements. He advocates that teaching materials should be psychological, and that teaching materials or knowledge of various disciplines should be restored to the original experience and turned into children's personal direct experience through teaching.