The Construction of Curriculum Under Cultural Governance

• In Event: Systems Governing Chinese Education Reforms: The Problem of Exclusions in the Efforts to Include

Abstract

In the process of urbanization, the urban cultural adaptation of new citizens’ children is not only a social problem, but also has a deep influence on the reform of schooling. Facing this problem, teacher education programs around the country are seeking to address the problem. The teacher education programs are responding to challenged through recognizing that the school curriculum is a culture symbol that is not only the means of governing the social order but also the product of urban cultures that are trying to reconstruct the cultural principles and values of community as new populations move into the cities. In China, the sense of collective belonging and values of society embodied in urban life become central in the governing principles of the curriculum of what is called in China, “land-lost farmers”.
This paper is to discuss research done in middle school of S province. It entails analysis of a survey on the students who attend this school to consider the rural areas and cultural values of the farming community from which they have moved from. The survey is to identify family education style and the structure of teaching staff in terms of potential conflict or harmony of communal values. After that, the school curriculum is examined and its revision that is introduced to teaching staff and the teachers' training are studied. The intent is to make “Subprime socialization” as the focus. Further the efforts for collaboration are examined that involved integrating central concepts in the teacher education curriculum: "collaboration" as the tenet of family upbringing refactoring, compiling "civil reading" as the local curriculum that shape the cultural character of education. Further, the subprime socialization analysis will also be related to recruiting new teachers. The effect of the revision in teacher education course will also be examined. The research is to explore the path proposed in teacher education for the urban cultural adaptation of new citizens’ children as their life taste and ways of consumption are being reshaped. The research related to how to build a support system of education for “the land-lost farmer”.
Key words: Cultural management; Curriculum construction; Children of Land-lost farmers; Urban social adaptation; Sociology of education.

Author

• Yahui Chang, Shaanxi Normal University