ABSTRACT
This chapter analysis that the New Curriculum Reform (NCR) by focusing on its implementation in schools. Through examples of new courses and programmes, teaching methods and assessment modes in Chinese classrooms, it chapter highlights the constructivist and postmodernist influences, as well as other Western ideas and practices, on education in China. The chapter discusses that the Chinese education can learn from Western countries in nurturing the students' abilities in innovation and application. This can be achieved by making the curriculum more diverse, giving students more choices, and developing their talents. The chapter summarizes the key differences between traditional education and postmodernist education, and applying the latter to China's NCR, Xiao. Under the traditional modernist model, uniformity, absoluteness, authority, control, order, and linearity of these ideas are reflected in education through the emphasis on centralised educational goals, teacher authority, submission of students, textbook-centred, rigid teaching methods, and standardised evaluation system.
