In order to promote the academic exchange and experience sharing in the field of curriculum reform policy research at home and abroad as well as to promote the further development of school curriculum reform, the Institute of Curriculum and Instruction of East China Normal University, the key research base of humanities and social sciences of the Ministry of Education, held the Thirteenth Shanghai International Curriculum Forum: School Curriculum Reform Policy and Review from November 6 to 8. Present at the forum were a dozen experts and scholars from the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia, Holland, Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan and other countries and regions in the field of education, sociology, curriculum, policy areas, courses and teaching, as well as more than 150 experts and scholars from over ten provinces and cities throughout the country, leaders of education administration departments and front-line educators.
Professor Cui Yunhuo expressed sincere welcome to all the guests on behalf of the organizers of the forum. Professor Michael Young, a world renowned expert of educational sociology, Honorary Professor of the Institute of Lifelong Education and International Development Studies at School of Education, University College London, delivered a speech on behalf of the specially invited experts. After a brief opening ceremony, a dozen well-known experts were invited to make keynote speeches from their respective research areas and research background, sharing the latest international research results with the participants.
From left to right: Michael Young,Val Rust, Birgit Pepin, Patrick Griffin, Fumio Isoda
From left to right: Cai Qingtian, Deng Zongyi, Yin Houqing, Wu Gangping, Ke Zheng
In the afternoon of Nov.7, after the keynote reports of the conference, the forum continued in three branch venues, focusing on topics such as “the implementation of the school curriculum policy”, “the research and practice of cross-cultural curriculum”, “the theoretical exploration and international comparison of school curriculum policy”. The delegates shared their thoughts on the problems encountered in the curriculum reform, and the participants spoke enthusiastically and actively explored the various problems arising from the curriculum reform.
Branch venue one
Branch venue two
Branch venue three
In the morning of Nov.8, specially invited experts at home and abroad attended the round table meeting on the theme of “core competence”, and conducted a high-level academic dialogue with scholars of our institute. They discussed important issues such as how to understand students’ core competence, what core competence can be trained in primary and secondary schools, and how to design courses based on core competence. The meeting was presided over by Professor Yang Xiangdong. Experts discussed the connotation of core competence in different cultural backgrounds and curriculum construction based on core competence. Finally, all participants reached a preliminary consensus: The concept of core competence should be defined more clearly and more thoughts should be given to the design and details of instructional change on this basis.
