Research-based Learning: Experimentation and Exploration

Author: Huo Yiping
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Publish Date: 2001-09-01
Features: Research-based learning, as an important approach and carrier for cultivating students' innovative spirit and practical abilities, is undoubtedly a hot, highlight, and challenging topic in the curriculum reform of basic education both domestically and internationally. How can this new form of curriculum smoothly enter primary and secondary schools in China and truly become an important part of the basic education curriculum structure? This is a concern for all educational administrative officials in the field of basic education, curriculum researchers at various levels, principals, teachers, and some higher education educators engaged in educational theory. Based on the author's recent "immersion" in research-based learning curriculum experiments in more than ten middle schools across the country, and drawing on the experience of research-based learning curriculum implementation in developed countries, this book focuses on the core of transforming advanced educational concepts into practical and actionable practices for school principals and teachers. It uses the results of the experiments to address the various confusions and questions of frontline educators about implementing research-based learning, making a valuable and commendable attempt to explore the establishment of curriculum norms for research-based learning. Targeting principals, teachers, and curriculum researchers at all levels, with the purpose of promoting research-based learning in primary and secondary schools, the book maintains a practical and original character. It avoids blindly applying foreign theories, does not adopt a condescending tone of criticism, and refrains from manufacturing or playing with jargon. It offers significant reference value for guiding primary and secondary schools in implementing research-based learning curricula.