The Comparative Research In Modern And Contemporary History Teaching Methods

The comparative research in modern and contemporary history teaching methods in fact is an issue how to absorb the past experience and get reference for the reform and innovation of contemporary history teaching methods during the research.In the last period of Qing dynasty, modern history teaching methods all contain a regular teaching mode greatly influenced by German Herbart's way. This mode lasted until the beginning of ROC when it was substantially changed by the Pragmatism and humanism education thoughts then pouring into China from western world. This change showed itself in many aspects such as transfer of teaching focuses, open-up teaching organization, relocation of education aims etc, among which the innovation of teaching methods was most important. Many brand-new methods, such as reading-guiding and role-playing, appeared. At that time, Chinese were so anxious to imitate those methods that the culmination of learning and copying western education thoughts and teaching methods were formed. However, all the thoughts and methods ended up with failure due to being unable to adapt to Chinese special condition.After the establishment of new China in 1949, on account of factors of social system and ideology, history education cut off its link with past China. History education undertook a new phase of self-development and self-innovation without any absorption from the experience of modern history teaching methods. Though these methods failed to continue developing thanks to time and social changes, many teaching ways and methods and the spirit to carry out them were preserved by new generation of history teaching researcher and practitioner so that we have opportunities to judge and use these ways and methods with a new perspective.During judging and exploring these modern history teaching methods, we find that contemporary history teaching methods reserve a lot of teaching ways which were fashionable for a time. On basis of this, contemporary history teaching methods lays great emphasis on the choices and combination of different teaching ways. So it's more flexible and diversified than the methods containing only one or two teaching ways used in ROC period. Beside that, we also find there many experience and lessons in the modern history teaching methods reformwhich can be used as reference for teaching methods innovation for next-round curriculum reform.We hope while inheriting from the modern history teaching methods, we can form out methods more adaptable to Chinese condition so that our history teaching will develop in more satisfactory way.