The significance and background of the eighth curriculum reform

China's eighth basic education curriculum reform was officially launched in 1999, and from January to June 2000, through the declaration and evaluation, a curriculum standard development group for each subject was established.

Significance: The reform of the curriculum function emphasizes the function of the curriculum to change from focusing solely on imparting knowledge to embodying guiding students to learn to learn, learn to live, and learn to be. Especially important is to emphasize the need to learn knowledge in the process of subtle cultivation of students correct values, outlook on life and worldview, to cultivate students with a sense of social responsibility, and strive to serve the people, guiding students to establish a lofty ideals.

Because this process will profoundly affect the formation of students' ideology and morality, and influence their life choices. The new round of basic education curriculum reform has achieved remarkable results after more than five years of hard work. The reform's role in promoting the full implementation of quality education in the field of basic education, objectives and content.

Background: for a long time, China has been using the national unified curriculum, the country's primary and secondary schools basically follow a teaching plan, a set of syllabus and a set of teaching materials, lack of flexibility and diversity. the late 1980s and early 1990s, the pace of curriculum reform is increasingly accelerated.

Beginning in 1999, it was officially proposed that a new basic curriculum and education system be established, with a three-tier system of management and development of the national curriculum, local curricula and school curricula on a trial basis.

Expanded information:

Basic education is an education that lays the foundation for the future development and lifelong learning of every student, and it is an education that improves the quality of the entire nation; it is not an elitist, selective education, and the content of its curricula and its requirements should be basic and limited. It cannot be expanded and elevated arbitrarily.

Basic education is not a terminal education, and the curriculum should allow sufficient time and space for the overall development of students, in order to promote the independent, diverse and sustainable development of students.

Reform is about stepping out of traditional ways of thinking and behaving and completing a metamorphosis of the self. This process is often grueling and even painful. As a result, there is always a certain anxiety among those who are involved in it.

Curriculum reform is a systematic project of great relevance and far-reaching significance, the entire reform involves changes in training objectives, reform of curriculum structure, the formulation of national curriculum standards, curriculum implementation and teaching reform, reform of teaching materials, development of curricular resources, the establishment of the evaluation system, and teacher training, as well as the protection of the support system, etc., it is a comprehensive reform of the entire basic education, led by the reform of the curriculum.

It is a comprehensive reform of basic education that is driven by curriculum reform.

It should be said that the reform of these programs is complementary and mutually constraining. Therefore, we should always carry out the reform of the "first to establish and then break, first experimental and then promote" working policy. Establishment of experimental areas for curriculum reform, promote at different levels, play the role of demonstration, training and guidance, and prepare for the transition to the new curriculum.

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