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multicultural education between China and the western countries (Long, 2006; Zhang, 2013); curriculum model,
curriculum construction and curriculum reform (Zheng, 2004; Ma, 2007; Wang & Li, 2009; Peng, 2010); teacher
education and the teaching methods (Dai, 2010; Gao, 2013), etc. However, most of these papers belong to
theoretical researches, although there are some empirical studies, action researches and even less reports on
teacher education, research methods and cultural practices of multicultural education (Fig.2). And most of the
research is superficial, with lower level compared with the western countries’. So actually, China just starts to
formally and largely study its multicultural education topics in the whole education systems.
Since curriculum is the most important way of the multicultural education implementation, curriculum
design the multicultural education is increasingly becoming the focus of attention in the academic circle in
China. Taking as an evaluation basis the basic law in curriculum designing students’ development should be the
central task and the relationships between society, students, and knowledge should be kept in balance. The
development of social modernization has greatly accelerated the process in China. At present, curriculum
content in many of China’s minority areas deviates from students’ actual life and affects directly the nation’s
educational development.
Number of papers
Years
Fig.1 Numbers of published papers on multicultural education Fig.2 Proportion of the research topics of multicultural education
in China since 2000 in China since 1990
875