China's New History
In Shanghai they are implementing a new curriculum for history taking the emphasis off of the emporers and dynasties and on to economics, technology, social customs and globalization.
The imperial history lesson had become less and less real to students as the generations have rolled on, the Marxist curriculum not being held letter for letter in modern day China.
The new curriculum is thought to hold closer to the goals of the chinese government of today and give students more data applicable to the real world in China.
Socialism has been reduced to a single chapter in the senior high school history, Chinese Communism before economic reform in 1979 is covered in a sentence and Mao is mentioned only once in a chapter on ettiquete.
While the pros and cons are still in debate in china they will be in to a broad scale pilot in Shanghai following a number of schools that put it into pilot in fall on an expirement.
I would like to see the present history books and see these for comparison to get a first-hand idea of what the scene is, but from this 20^30-hand data it seems like we're going in the right direction.
I would not say the history need be utterly neglected but put forward as datums and the student can see what he see's in the whole picture. While the subjects where there involves more practical and applicable data the use of a classroom could become rather beneficial.
Keep sharp to track this one, there could be a lot more coming.
The imperial history lesson had become less and less real to students as the generations have rolled on, the Marxist curriculum not being held letter for letter in modern day China.
The new curriculum is thought to hold closer to the goals of the chinese government of today and give students more data applicable to the real world in China.
Socialism has been reduced to a single chapter in the senior high school history, Chinese Communism before economic reform in 1979 is covered in a sentence and Mao is mentioned only once in a chapter on ettiquete.
While the pros and cons are still in debate in china they will be in to a broad scale pilot in Shanghai following a number of schools that put it into pilot in fall on an expirement.
I would like to see the present history books and see these for comparison to get a first-hand idea of what the scene is, but from this 20^30-hand data it seems like we're going in the right direction.
I would not say the history need be utterly neglected but put forward as datums and the student can see what he see's in the whole picture. While the subjects where there involves more practical and applicable data the use of a classroom could become rather beneficial.
Keep sharp to track this one, there could be a lot more coming.
posted by Kombucha @ 9/01/2006 04:59:00 AM
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