日本小学"英语活动"特色述评

Contest between Darwin and God──The Game of Curriculum Contents From whether the Theory of Evolution Should Be Written into US Textbooks

2011年起，"外语活动"成为日本小学5、6年级的必修内容，这标志着外语正式成为日本小学教学内容之一。本文通过对2002年日本小学全面实施"外语活动"以来小学英语活动目标、教材、教学方法、师资等方面的特色以及社会评价进行考察，提出日本小学英语活动在活动目标明确、构建复合型师资队伍等等方面值得我们借鉴。

Whether the theory of evolution should be written into the textbooks reflects the process of gaming about inclusion of curriculum contents. Textbook is not the results of filtrating the knowledge equitably or is not the one-way controlled by the dominant groups. It is a game played by different groups. Concession is the optimal strategy employed by those conflicting groups, which leads to the fact that textbook is the result and reflection of conflicts and concession. However the concession is temporal and will be smashed in the end, so the argument about whether the theory of evolution should be written into the textbook has been for one century and will also continue forever.