University's Hidden Curriculum and Talent Development

Author: Fu Mingfu Wang Jiafang
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Publish Date: 2004-08-01
Features: Emphasizing and making full use of potential curriculum to promote the comprehensive development of students' individuality has become an important trend in current curriculum reform. Because the research on potential curriculum is always closely linked to educational practice, it is easily implemented in educational activities and plays a theoretical guiding role. How to actively develop the potential curriculum of schools is a crucial issue in contemporary school education. This book is written based on the completion of the research project "Research on University Potential Curriculum and Talent Development" funded by the Ministry of Education of China. As the cornerstone of educational curriculum activities, potential curriculum encompasses a very broad range of content. In addition to the eight aspects mentioned above, the influence of cultural values in social and family environments on talent development should also be by no means overlooked. In summary, modern talent development models rely not only on explicit curriculum that is included in teaching plans but also on the potential curriculum that permeates the entire campus environment outside the teaching plans. This is because potential curriculum possesses characteristics such as holism, non-visibility, dependence, latency, enjoyment, and ease of acceptance, and plays a unique role in talent development.