美国本科课程改革:追求完整的本科教育

美国历次大学本科教育改革均是通过课程改革实现的,课程改革被视为教育改革的重中之重.20世纪90年代中期以来,美国大学针对本科教育中存在的专业化和职业化倾向加剧,学生人格培养受到影响,本科教育广受社会指责等问题,以整体知识观为理论指导,深入改革本科课程,致力于建立融普通教育和专业教育为一体的连贯和完整的本科课程体系,强调将人文学科的学习作为本科教学战略的基础,学习跨学科课程成为对学生的基本要求,以确保本科教育各个知识系统之间的本质联系,消除狭隘的本科教育的弊端,追求完整的本科教育,帮助学生养成整体的知识观和综合的生活观,使学生能以时代最好的知识成熟地理解事物的本质,承担起公民的职责.

Reform of Undergraduate Curriculum in the United States:Pursuing the Integrity of Undergraduate Education

With the specialization and professionalization of undergraduate education,many problems arose:courses were incoherent;the quality of education was dropping;the development of students' personality was influenced.In order to solve these problems,a new round of reform of undergraduate curriculum in American universities began in the mid-1990s.American higher education circles regarded the whole knowledge view as the theoretical direction and carried on an extensive range of reform to the system of the underg...