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 In
2000, to promote education aimed at enhancing
the overall quality of the educated, the Ministry
of Education urged the use of a new curriculum
system throughout the country. The new system
represents a shift, from education based on the
learning of subjects to education aimed at promoting
the overall development of the student. Attention
is paid to cultivating students' thinking ability
and their ability to solve practical problems.
At the primary school stage, mainly comprehensive
courses are offered; and at the junior middle
school stage, comprehensive science and liberal
arts courses are offered. Junior middle school
students can also choose separate courses or a
combination of separate and comprehensive courses.
At the senior middle school stage, mainly separate
courses are offered, with a great variety of optional
courses available for selection. From primary
to senior middle school, comprehensive practicing
activities are regarded as a required course.
Such activities cover studies of a research nature,
community services, the learning of labor skills
and other social practices.
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Rural
middle schools (at the junior stage), on the premise
that requirements of nine-year compulsory education
are met, can offer courses on agricultural techniques,
provide "green certificate" education
(receivers of such education who pass examinations
are issued such a certificate to indicate that the
holder is qualified to offer technical services
in rural areas), and offer other technical training,
if the total amount of teaching does not exceed
what is prescribed. If a student has received nine-year
compulsory education and acquired a "green
certificate," he or she can either go on to
a school of a higher grade or go back to the countryside
to do farm work. Teaching materials used in "greet
certificate" education in junior middle schools
are based  on
textbooks compiled by the Ministry of Agriculture
for "green certificate" training courses
offered to farmers.
The general
objective of the course reform for the fundamental
education of China from 2000 to 2010 is:
1. Reform
the excessively knowledge-oriented course design,
emphasize on the development of the students spiritually
and materially in the course design, |
