Summary: | 碩士 === 國立暨南國際大學 === 國際文教與比較教育學系 === 103 === China emphysizes a lot on the welfare and the core value of the whole nation, therefore, strong socialist connotations attached to both the Chinese and history textbooks in traditional schooling. A “Content anaylsis” was applied in this study. In version seleciton of textbook, the highest market share of People’s Education Press was chosen to explore the meaning of life into the educational situation. The study first discusses the social context of intense curriculum resolution in China during recent years, and illustrates the status of life education development in all regions. Discussion followed is the reform of standard Chinese courses in high school, and then analyzes the content of their Chinese textbooks. Finally, it based on the connotations of life education category established by experts to explore the educational content of life circumstances and characteristics blending into the Chinese textbook for senior high schools.
Nowadays, utilitarianism was wrongly foused and confused adolescents’ value of the meaning of life. Many countries thus started to promote life education. Since 1992, China has entered economic long-term rapid growth phase and created a stunning “economic miracle”. Therefore, this paper explores the center of life education, mainly due to the implementation of curriculum standards in 2003, which stressed “To connect to life, strengthen communication and Chinese courses linking to other courses to meet the needs of real life and students’ self-development”. Viewing it into the Chinese textbook for senior high schools, Taiwan can also use it as a reference in editing textbook for researchers.
The study found that Chinese textbook for senior high schools in China complied “scientific principles” as compile basis. Selections significantly enhanced the times, diversity and richness. The research is only limited to introduction of life education theory, rather than focus on suggestions for teaching methods, and rarely made quantitatively advice to statistical analysis of primary and secondary categories. As for the connotation of life education, self-concept and the value of life is much higher in vernacular Chinese than in classical ones, but morality and ethics are the majority in all life selections while the health growth ones are the minority.
Key words:Senior high schools in China; Chinese textbook; Life Education
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