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Prof. Wu Gangping

Position: Wu Gangping, Ph.D

Professor, Institute of Curriculum and Instruction, East China Normal University, Shanghai.

Consulting Editor of Curriculum Perspectives, the Journal of the Australian Curriculum Studies Association.

Short CV:

Wu Gangping, Ph.D

Professor, Institute of Curriculum and Instruction, East China Normal University, Shanghai.

Consulting Editor of Curriculum Perspectives, the Journal of the Australian Curriculum Studies Association.

Research fields: Curriculum and Instruction Theory, Teacher Education, especially in Curriculum Resources, Classroom Teaching, Teacher Development and School-Based Research.

Area of interest:

Curriculum and Instruction Theory, Teacher Education, especially in Curriculum Resources, Classroom Teaching, Teacher Development and School-Based Research.

Issues on Construction of Local and School-based Curriculum Management system

In China, basic education is the responsibility of local authorities according to the management system, but its curriculum development mechanism is a typical form of centralization with a uniform strategy of national curriculum development. The curriculum developers under the mechanism of centralization are trying to find a way of decentralization to counteract the centralization’s weakness. One of their strategies is three-level curriculum management policy including local and school-based curriculum development (SBCD). But in fact, SBCD under the mechanism of centralization doesn’t go on as smoothly as its policy makers expect. Especially there are many internal contradictions between and within institutions and ideas, managements and evaluations, current needs and cultural traditions.