From the"Three Traditional Subjects"to"curriculum Integration":The Evolution Course and Future Prospects of China's Teacher Education Curriculum System in China
A high-quality teacher education curriculum system is a key element of a high-quality teacher education system.Through policy text analysis,this paper reviews the evolution course of China's teacher education curriculum system,reflects on its internal logic,and explores the direction of reform.The analysis shows that the evolution of China's teacher education curriculum system has gone through four stages,namely,taking the"three traditional subjects"as the main body(from the founding of the People's Republic of China to the end of the last century),expanding the curriculum categories on the basis of the"three traditional subjects"(from the end of the last century to 2011),curriculum reform based on the teacher education curriculum standards(from 2012 to the present)and"Curriculum Integration"in the context of Professional Certification(started in 2017).The evolution of China's teacher education curriculum system is highly dependent on the promotion of government policies.Teacher education institutions are accustomed to taking advantage of policies and offering additional courses based on the original curriculum framework.The push of teacher professionalization movement and the pull of the goal of building a high-quality teacher workforce are summarized as the driving force for the change of China's teacher education curriculum system.The future focus of teacher education curriculum policy supply is to revise teacher education curriculum standards,establish a standards-based teacher education curriculum quality assurance system,guide and encourage the changes in the paradigm of teacher education curriculum,achieve the convergence of teacher education curriculum reform and basic education curriculum reform,and promote the digital transformation of teacher education curriculum and the joint construction and sharing of the high-quality curriculum resources.
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