爱尔兰小学课程大纲及实施特点述评——以RPNS小学为例

Irish Primary School Curriculum and Its Characteristics of Implementation—— taking RPNS as an Example

爱尔兰小学课程大纲确立了教育的主要目标、课程的具体目标和细分目标;课程主要包括语言、数学、社会环境和科学、艺术、体育、健康、宗教七个模块;大纲对课程实施也做出了具体的规定和指导。本文以爱尔兰一所Rathfarnham教区公立小学的课程及其实施为例,分析了爱尔兰小学课程及其实施所具有的综合性、灵活性、注重创造力培养、能够充分利用教育资源、重视科学应用于生活、重视评估的作用等一系列特点。

The Irish Primary School Curriculum （1999） has set the general aims of primary education, specific curriculum aims and more detailed general objectives; The curriculum is presented in seven curriculum areas： language： Gaeilge and English; mathematics; social, environmental and scientific education （SESE）： history, geography and science; arts education： visual arts, music and drama; physical education; and social, personal and health education （SPHE）; The implementation of the Primary School Curriculum also provides schools with specific provision and guidance. This article takes a public primary school in Rathfamham as an example, analyzes a series of characteristics of Irish primary school curriculum and its implementation, such as comprehensiveness, flexibility, stressing the cultivation of creativity, making full use of education resources, attaching great importance to the cultivation of creativity, the relevance to children＇s lives and the assessment of curriculum.