The Misconstruction of the Postmodern Curriculum at the Beginning of the 21st Century in Mainland China:From the Perspectives of Curriculum Culture

摘要

The current paper contemplates a process of introducing the postmodernism in curriculum changes since the beginning of 21st century in China.During the 15 years,government sought to responding the rapid economic development and reducing the pressures of exam-oriented education,and then introduced the frames of postmodernism curriculum which went beyond the modernism stage of the curriculum development in China.The educational system had shown more intent to bring about change but has been hampered both by an inherited culture of inertia and lack of micro-culture in classroom,which led to the disconnection between the policy-making and the practices of implementation.