Abstract: Freedom is not only the ultimate value pursuit of the school-based curriculum, but the condition and guarantee
of such pursuit. We view the development of the school-based curriculum from a perspective of freedom. This is the expansion of the possibility that it drives students, teachers and schools to obtain freedom. On the basis of possible conversion to the real- ity, we reconstruct it. The understanding, confirmation and expansion can be seen respectively as the premise, implementary scale, and objective of evaluation. At present, the confusion and mistakes in the freedom’s conception of the school-based cur- ricula of primary and middle schools, ignorance of freedom’s boundary, shelter of freedom’s value would weaken and even e- liminate the nature of freedom. Accordingly, schools should fully practice the freedom’s conception of the school-based curric- ulum, establish the free atmosphere for the development of such curriculum, clarify its freedom’s value in order to enrich student’s learning resume and lead students to freedom.