Curriculum Reform in the Course of Social Transformation

Curriculum Reform in the Course of Social Transformation

The case of Shanghai

Luo Xiaoming

Cultural Studies, Volume 25, 2011 - Issue 1: Education and Cultural Studies

To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2011.534580

ABSTRACT :                  

Curriculum reform is an important reform for China in the course of its social transformation since its inception in 1996. With curriculum reform as its core, the current education reform has a decade-long history. Internally, the objectives of the current round of education reform by the state government are in support of the ‘socialist market economy’ and ‘the economic development’ for the restructuring of the social fabric. Externally, the objective is to enhance the human capital of China in preparation for the new challenges and increasingly fierce competition of the global knowledge-based economy. Senior secondary school education has become the focal point of the current round of reform in basic education.