The Poetics of Curriculum:Theoretical Exploration and Practice-Based Approaches
The pursuit of rationality,control,and efficiency in modern curriculum paradigms,and the treatment of specific and standardized curriculum goals as the sole orientation lead to such problems as limitations in curriculum theories,and the prevalence of utilitarianism in practice.As students are born with poetic qualities,the curriculum needs to introduce and practice the concept of poetics,explore its inherent poetic dimensions,and go against the popular paradigms.The poetics of curriculum can be seen as a supplement to the scientific dimension of the curriculum by examining the text from the perspective of poetics.It focuses on not only the poetic quality of the curriculum subject and the poetic discourse in the field of curriculum,but also the syntactic rules of the curriculum and the use of poetic techniques.Conceptually,it indicates the rediscovery of the emotional and poetic dimensions of individuals in existing curricula,including the sense of pleasure that should have been contained in education;in practice,it views students'experience as the driving force to practice the curriculum;in terms of content,it reflects on and creates the verbal styles and syntactic rules of the curriculum,and constantly updates the syntactic structure;in terms of approaches,it optimizes the overall designing of the curriculum based on the introduction and integration of new content and new syntax.