Integrating Elementary Mathematics into Curriculum Studies

Abstract

It has not been a long course, the undertaking that is modern curriculum studies in China. A few scholars started to pay attention to curriculum issues in the 1980s. Before then, however, curriculum was as a branch of pedagogy or instruction. In the 1980s, Chen **a and Zhong Qiquan published works on the curriculum. They introduced different schools of curriculum thought from foreign countries but did not systemically address curriculum issues in China. The real start of scholars of curriculum studies occurred in the early 1990s. Departing from the so-called uni-syllabus, many began to pay close attention to curriculum and textbooks taught in precollegiate education reforms. Curriculum issues entered researchers’ agendas.