The Comparison Study Of The Regional Geography Of China

The learning of regional science is an important part of the geography education of high school. How to divide our country into different regions according to different standards and which regions to choose to learn is one of the most difficult problems of the geography education of junior high school. There are lots of big changes in the newly issued "the National Geography standards for Junior High School". The standards leave more space for the writing of geography textbook. In this situation, three editions of geography textbooks for junior high school have been published by People's Education Press, Hunan Education Press and China's Map Press.This thesis is about the research of the part of Chinese regional geography in the "the National Geography standards for Junior High School" and the three editions of geography textbooks. And this thesis concludes six chapters:The 1st and 6th chapter is about the reasons and the results of the research.The main parts of this thesis are the rest of four chapters. The 2nd chapter is about the level of the consent of the content of the textbooks to the Geography Standards. The result is all the three editions of the textbooks meet the inquiries of the Geography Standards. In each of the three editions of textbooks, there are different regions divided on different standards, organized and expressed in different ways. The 3rd, 4th and 5th chapters of this thesis are the comparison study of three formal systems of literal system, picture system and activity system. As a whole, the new textbooks have been improved a lot. The language is very lively and emotional. The contents are expressed in various ways and about the latest knowledge. All the textbooks are informative and instructive.There are both advantages and disadvantages in the three editions of the geography textbooks. From the perspective of the three formal systems of the textbooks, the literal system, the edition published by People's Education Press is much less lively than the other two editions. From the view of the picture system, the textbook published by China's Map Press has more sorts of pictures to enlarge the perspective of students' learning of geography. And the last one, activity system, the textbook published by People's Education Press is more difficult and the textbook printed by the China's Map Press is diversified and evocative for students to explore new ways to study. And the one printed by Hunan Education press made many different situations to make use of the basic geographical knowledge and theory. Among the three editions of the geography textbooks, geographic element needn't be listed entirely any more. But still, the new textbooks are necessary to be optimized based on new researches.