A Comparative Research On Textbooks Of Biology For Using In Senior Middle School In China And Japan

As the 21^st century coming, we are facing the knowledge-based economy. It is an epoch that science and technology develop rapidly, the international competition aggravates day by day. Especially, as the using of information technology widely, education faces unprecedented challenge. Under the challenge, all countries of the world are putting the reforming and the development of the education in the initial position, and putting the construction of basic education to guarantee their advantage status in the international challenge.Curriculum is the key problem and the most important software in schooling. Curriculum possesses infinitely developing potential, too. So curriculum is unavoidable in the educational reform. Curriculum reform is one of an important composition of the education reform, and the reform of textbook is one of important composition of the curriculum reform, too. Textbook reflects the curriculum content and the learning approaches. The quality of textbook influences the quality of curriculum. So it is the key factor which influences the quality of the school teaching and then the goal of the school teaching.Biological course is an important science curriculum in senior middle school. In the modern society, biological science literacy is the basic quality , which every citizen should have. Adapting the development of contemporary, our country reforms its biological course in senior middle school,and so do Japan. In Japan, a new learning guide and a set of new...