Comparative Research On The Content Of Experiment In Chinese And Foreign High School Chemistry Textbooks

Pushed by the upsurge of the international science education reform, Ministry of Education of china promulgates the HIGH SCHOOL CHEMISTRY CURRICULUM STANDARDS in 2003,Which aims to establish a new curriculum of high school chemistry. In the STANDARDS the idea is emphasized,which is"Through a variety of inquring activities based on chemical experiments,to stimulate the interest of learning chemistry,to strengthen the sense of scientific inquiry,to promote a change in learning-way,to cultivate their enterprising spirit and practical ability,so that students can experience the process of scientific research."The effective implementation of the new curriculum idea in textbooks-compiling and practical teaching must rely on chemical experiments. We must reexamine the status and value of chemistry experiment in the new curriculums, and the teaching function of chemical experiment.The research purpose of this thesis is to comparative analyse the"learning-scheme"characteristics of experiments in Chinese and Foreign high school chemistry textbooks from the perspective of integrating disciplinary analysis and inquiry-learning theory. For the purpose,the thesis comprehensive research the selecting and compiling of experiments in Chinese and Foreign high school chemistry, and give the suggestions on textbooks'compiling and chemistry teaching.This thesis includes the following five parts:Part I,Foreword.analyse the change of the new curriculum's idea of high school chemistry and the main problems existing in chemical experiment teaching.Through analyzing literature,I summarize the current situation of the experimental research,and explain the research mthods about how to use discipleinary analying and learning-method to study the experiments of high school chemistry tetxtooks,and point out the significance of the research.Part II,The theoretical Problems of compareing of Chinese and Foreign high school chemistry experiments. In this part,more detailed analysis of the diffence in"chemical problem solving", Scientific Inquiry theory, teaching requirements of chemical experiments.Part III,The Comparison of content-selecting of experiments in Chinese and Foreign high school chemistry textbooks. At first,analyse the difference of the Scientific inquiry activities,experimental inquiry activities and experimental design of Chinese high school chemistry.Then analyse the difference of the choice of quantitative experiments and microscale experiments.Part IV,Comparison of compiling experiments in Chinese and Foreign high school chemistry. First,compare the difference of experimental system,experimental operation,experimental apparatus of Chinese and Foreign high school chemistry textbooks.Then, analyse the difference of experimental processs and the training of scientific methods. At last, compare the difference of the relevance of chemistry to society.Part V,Conclusion. On the basis of the previous text, the thesis comes to the basic research conclusion:First,the new teaching ideas of high school chemistry try to achieve three change. Second, Coordinate problems and inquiry, problem representation and prototype of problem-solving are the important basis of problem-solving.Third, Chinese high school chemistry has clear objective system,but has no specific evaluation indicators and operational methods.Forth, as far as scientific inquiry activities and experimental inquiry activities are concerned, china value the strengthening of the core knowledge and skills, but foreign pay attention to the detailed the thinking training.Fifth, in the experimental design,china value to detailed demonstrate the ontology elements,foreign pay attention to the training students'thinking skills and process skills,besides,there are few quantative experiments and microscale experiments in Chinese high school chemistry textbook.Sixth, Chinese experimental systems pay attention to the complete process, learning knowledge and methods, but foreign value the thinking- traning. Seventh, during the course of chemical experiment, china should improve the thinking training, and increase the"Scientific method"in learning scientific methods.Based on the above conclusion, the author of the thesis makes some relevant commendations on writing and revising the high shool chemistry textbooks,and chemistry teaching...