The Research And Practice On The Middle School Students' Styles Of Learning Geography Under New-Course Ideas

The reform of courses in GuiLin is started as far back as several years ago right away in some places, such as QingFeng Experimental Middle School. The reform of new course began to be carried out in large scale within the whole city in 2004. As a middle school in-service geography teacher, I can feel the big impact on our subject from it. The students think that geography is very difficult to learn, including the students now in Senior II and Senior III. why is that? Is geography that difficult to learn really? After looking into the case we discovered: One important cause is that there is something wrong with our students'styles of learning geography, and a change from traditional styles is needed, So we must proposes the style adapting to learning of the new course reforms actively. The traditional Styles of Learning Geography are mainly the following: 1st, a type of passivity accepts , 2nd, a type of reproducing copies , 3rd, a type of book-worms.The New Course Reform this time try hard to change this aspect of centering on teachers , classroom and books step by step originally; and to turn the former recipient simple styles of learning geography into the varieties of styles of learning geography which may move and bring the students'initiative into play; to change the Styles of Learning from traditional into modern; to propose the students to learn geography in variety, in different arrangement, and in different points of view, using the styles of exploring learning, cooperative learning, practical learning, and autonomous learning between teachers and students, or students and students. The students can learn geography more actively through internet, their lives or reality, not only their teachers. Thus the students may feel that geography is one subject of life which is useful throughout all their lives. So they will double their interest in geography and they may make greater progress in geography.The thesis consists of five parts.Part I. Preface. It consists of the raise of the problem, purpose and significance that the problem studies, the current situation of the research, the train of thought of the research, the theory basis of the research and study methods of the research.Part II. New course ideas call for new styles of learning geography. This part has analysed the defect and causes of traditional geographical learning styles of middle school students, the new reformed geography course requiring that the students change the traditional theory basis of the geographical learning styles. The new course ideas has proposed various geographical.Part III. The construction of middle school students'geographical learning styles under the new course ideas. Guided by new geography course idea, we construct new styles of learning geography which are according with middle school student'age characteristic and their cognition characteristic, according to different geography structure of knowledge. They are: the styles of learning owing to cooperation, problems, practice, looking-into, individual character, dialogues and internet. As to the basic geography course, we construct the styles of learning owing to dialogue and problems.As to the developed geography course, we constructed the styles of learning owing to cooperation, practice, and internet.As to the research geography course, we constructed the styles of learning owing to research and self-learning.It is stated clearly how each learning style is constructed and their significance in theory and in reality.Part IV. The practice of middle school students'learning styles under new course ideas. I carefully chose some different cases in this part, to analysed the new geographical learning styles carried out and applied in different class of different course. After more than a year's exploration, we have found some methods which are suitable for the teachers at work, including the ways to carry out, teaching patterns and analysis of some typical cases.Part V. The result survey and infrospection of the research. This part introduces the achievement of the research practice and the existing problems. The result of the research proves that creative geographical learning styles can do good both to the students'mental health and physical health; It is good to the development of the students' subjective initiative, so that they can realize their own value in maximal possibility; it can also help to improve the students'lesson scores. But there are still much deficiency in practice, remaining to be improved further.The thesis has done a great deal using various methods and means such as document adopting, observing, case studying , action studying, ect...