试论通识教材开发的核心理念与基本路径

摘要

Since 1990's, the Chinese mainland humanity education, quality education and general education being in the ascendant, a little comprehensive universities and more advanced primary and secondary schools are attempting to be in progress exchanging general education reform, and begin to carry out a line in concrete teaching activity. But general education textbook still waits for developing. The core idea for developing general education textbook is scientific spirit and humanity spirit, at the same time, it should seize three thinking degree of discipline general knowledge, theory, history, practice, once again, it should embody out the life- force of general education, science, forward position, opening to the outside world, and it should have the distinct pragmatic characteristic.%自20世纪90年代以来，我国人文素质教育和通识教育方兴未艾，一些综合性大学和比较先进的中小学正尝试进行通识教育改革，并开始在具体教学活动中践行。然而，与之配套的通识教育教材却有待开发。开发通识教材首先应凸显通识教育的核心理念——科学精神和人文精神；其次，应抓住“通识”学科知识的三个维度：理论、历史、实务；通识教材的生命力在于科学、前沿、开放和具有鲜明的实用特色。