ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the research contents of curriculum history in mainland China and Taiwan. The historical inquiry should regard the curriculum as the arena of power, and record and interpret conflict and compromise among interest groups from the perspective of sociology of knowledge. Research can focus mainly on a school, a teacher and a student, and from a micro perspective examine the implementation of national curriculum policies at the school and individual levels. Research can mainly analyse the formulation of the curriculum management system at the national, regional and school levels, the development and evolution of the content and mode of management, and the value orientation reflected behind it from the macro or micro level. In Taiwan, some scholars have studied the history of curriculum reforms in the United States. The academic community of curriculum history research has initially been formed in Taiwan.
