The Research For The Contents Of Physics History And Its Presenting Form In The Standard Physics Textbooks Of Senior High School

It is an important topic to put the physics history into the physics curriculum to expand its educational functions in the researches of physics education. And it is a significant issue facing our current education reform for physics curriculum. In 2003 the Ministry of Education promulgated the Curriculum Standards of Physics Education in Senior High School (experimental) (It is called curriculum Standards for short hereinafter), which proposed that the teaching materials should attach importance to the process of occurrence and development of science and it also should reveal the wrought and sublimed scientific thinking way and scientific methodology, so that the learners could learn scientific thought and methodology from some senior scientists. The curriculum Standards also put forward that the teaching materials should carry forward the science spirit of scientists by using their cases with dedication. So the learners are influenced by vivid emotion, attitudes and values and it is conducive to the formation of healthy personality. Besides the curriculum Standards also advanced some specific requirements about the contents of physics.It is a re-creation process basing on the curriculum standards to compile the teaching materials. Simultaneity it is a concrete manifestation of the curriculum standards. How to introduce the physics history into textbooks by request of the curriculum standards, how to understand the physics history in the curriculum standards and teaching materials in the process of teaching practice and whether the educational functions of physics history are fully realized or not in teaching practice, which are urgently needed to answer in the curriculum reform. Based on above, the study selects three editions of textbooks based on the curriculum standards that are used widely in some senior high schools for the samples. The study will analyze the contents options of the physics history, compiling styles, the visual angle of cut-in, presenting form and some typical cases. Besides the study make a survey study for 91physics teachers from some senior high schools. Then the following results come from the two comprehensive studies.Firstly, the standard textbooks pay attention to expand the functions of physics curriculum from three aspects about knowledge and skills, processes and methodology, emotional attitudes and values. For the specific performance, the contents attach importance to select the case from the historical scientists to show the occurrence and the development process of scientific knowledge. So that the contents can help the students understand science and learn the methodology of science inquiry and it also infiltrates emotional attitudes and values into the process of teaching. In teaching practice, the teachers have been widely recognized that the physics history, which is an important curriculum resource, can realize the three goals of teaching.Secondly, the standard textbooks introduce the physics history by a variety of compiling ways, which is conducive to the diversification of teachers' teaching and students' learning. And it also is help to stimulating students' interests in learning. The survey shows that the presenting styles of physics history can affect the teachers' attitudes for the physics history. Therefore, the textbooks should select some appropriate presenting forms by request of the curriculum standards to introduce the physics histories into the textbooks to achieve its educational functions.Thirdly, different editions of textbooks emphasize different physics history. And the same physics histories have different characteristics in the logic structures and presenting forms. So the characteristics show that the physics histories have diversification in unified request of the curriculum standards.Fourthly, the standard textbooks show the colorful physics history by various ways, but it still can not meet the needs of teachers' teaching. Networks and extracurricular reading materials have become important channels to offer the physics history for teachers. Attaching importance to the exploitation of physics history based on the internet and compiling extracurricular reading materials, which are important approaches to achieve the curriculum objectives and prepare for putting the physics history into the physics courses.