Research On Geography Textbook In View Of The Culture

With the further movement of the geography curriculum reform, geography textbooks bas become a hot target for researchers,and there are plenty of researches at levels of practice,technology and analysis. Inspired by the cultural turn in curriculum study,my dissertation is focusing on geography textbooks within the cultural context——a completely new perspective.In the dissertation,three aspects are demonstrated:explaining the connotations of geography textbooks,analyzing the change and development of the textbooks in the time(or historical)dimension,and discussing the theories of geography textbooks designing and compiling under multicultural background.Chapter 1 The conversion of perspective on culture and geography textbooks in the contemporary time.In this chapter,the present research situation of geography textbooks home and abroad are narrated as well as the research basis of textbooks in the perspective of culture.Then some important concepts are defined,such as culture and geography,textbooks, with the definition of culture as the integration of behavior,value, lingual symbol,thinking mode,aesthetic and knowledge system that have formed in the human history,passed by and displayed through human activities.Finally,the theory basis is analyzed as cultural philosophy and culture of education,from which my research derives.Chapter 2 The explanation of the cultural connotation in geography textbooks.Analyzing the terms of the cultural essence and functions,it is believed in this chapter that the geography textbooks are characterized by many cultural attributes,such as regionalism,comparative stability, of time quality.Especially,the geography textbooks in the contemporary time contain rich cultural connotations,including patriotism, dialectical thinking,the spirit of seeking for truth,pursuit of sustainable development and earth-human harmony,health aesthetic,and they also draw various cultural elements from all kinds of aspects,like science,arts,traditions,Internet and so forth.Chapter 3 The development of geography textbooks in the past centuryAnalyzing the social-cultural background that the geography textbooks in China are born of and their development situation in the past century,it indicates in this chapter that our geography textbooks came into being in the process of modernization and went through conflicts in the following time.Then the change and development of geography textbooks are explored and interpreted under culture in six aspects,involving the conversion of language expression,the target for the textbooks,the influence by the cultural thinking mode of traditional bibliography,the discourse power in different political periods,the patriotism in existence and the change of earth-man theory.Chapter 4 The designing and compiling theory of geography textbooks in contemporary time.New changes should take place in the geography textbooks due to self-renewal of the traditional culture,import of foreign culture,rapid development of science and technology and the trend of culture melting.So in this chapter the goal of geography textbooks under culture is defined,and the constraints and the culture source are analyzed when selecting the textbook content,with several principles proposed that the content selection should be based on the mainstream culture value and thinking,and should be fundamental,comparatively stable,of time quality,life-oriented and moderately open.Finally,the organization approach and principle are discussed,then the language expression,image representation and format design are also probed from a view of culture.The conclusion reflection and prospect for the geography textbooks under culture.The chapter first demonstrates that the essence of geography textbooks development is the selection of culture,so to reform the geography textbooks is to reform the culture in them rather than only changing the knowledge system of them Besides,the chapter expects that it is possible that content of geography textbooks will be determined by geography teachers optionally other than compulsorily,and that the knowledge carrier of textbooks will transfer from paper to the integration of word,picture,video,animation,sound,called "electronic geography textbook".