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Issue5: A nation should require all its students to study all the same curriculum until they enter college rather than allow schools in different parts of the nation to determine which academic courses to offer
Curriculum design, a critical step during the whole process of education has always been a tricky issue confronting educators and the public. The arguer asserts that all students should be required to study the same national curriculum until college. Some people may embrace this statement wholeheartedly. However, I have my own reservations that individual states should be provided the freedom to decide which academic courses to offer under the circumstance that a compulsory core curriculum is given to all.
Providing common values and traditions people share and the ones upon which human beings depend to survive, basic courses play an important role. As in China, students are taught to respect for others and be modest at an early age. This helps them set up a moral standard, which gives juveniles right directions for their future roads. It is quite possible that adolescents would go out of their way ,if it were not for the ethnic that directs them. So it is with society supported by the basic moral standards. It is impossible to make more than the wildest guess at what the society would be like if everyone held the values that are detrimental to the harmony of society.
Furthermore, children, for future education, need to master knowledge and basic skills, reading, writing and mathematical proficiency included. Literature teaches them to read and write; arts help cultivate their aestheticism; mathematics gives them the ability to calculate and analyze; science bring them to the world of nature. All of these prepare students better for their study in university.
Despite the benefits brought by the same national courses, this kind of curriculum design poses certain problems in the mean time. In a multicultural society, the homogenization of education will diminish individual state or province’s unique cultures. People of WeiWuer,(维吾尔族 不知道怎么说了-_-!)one of the minorities in China, is a case in point. Inhabitants have their own language in Xinjiang, where most WeiWuer people live, and children at certain grade level are required to learn the language of their own as well as the history of their particular ethnic groups as most of them are Muslims. In this case, a national curriculum can not meet the need of the people there to assimilate the cultures of their own, thus, the cultural diversity, a treasure of the nation, can not be passed down from generation to generation.
To be more objective, it is not realistic that each state shares a common curriculum. Some factors such as the economic development in that region or the terrain characteristics there may restrain the actualization of national curriculum. For instance, there are quite a few towns or villages which are in extremely poverty. How can computer science be made a compulsory course when the residents there can not even afford one computer? In this circumstance, the same national curriculum, undoubtedly, will become the inhabitants’ burden.
In sum, taken all factors into consideration, in my perspective, the optimal way to solve such a complex issue is to combine a required national core curriculum with particular courses each state see fit
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第一次动手写起来还是有不少问题, 大家多批,谢谢了:) |
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