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Investigations On Secondary School Students' Pre-scientific View Of Geography And Restructuring Research

Posted on:2009-12-29Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:C Y ZhangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2167360245454560Subject:Geography teaching theory
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The geographical view of students predominate their action of learning geography, then, it will impact geographical learning effect and practice capabilities. Geography plays an important role in the process of resolving the major issues in today's society. High-quality geographical education is very important in basic education. But different educational groups will come into being deviation and fuzzy understanding about geography subject, and that standpoint is widespread and it will impact healthy development of geographical basic education. Researching the pre-scientific view of geography'existence types and specific forms of students and detecting impact factors, an important way of solving the above problems is to develop teaching strategies.This paper probed into advantages and disadvantages of multi-subject conception of survey methodology on the basis of literature reading. Integrating to the features of geographical subjects, the paper adopted the methods of semi-geographic imaging systems votes and interview. Selecting 673 students of five classes as samples in ordinary schools of Yanbian, it will take four students form different groups and three teachers form different years of teaching as the main targets of interviews. The paper will take quality method with ranking and grouping votes and quantity method with caption.The study found that pre-scientific view of geography about secondary school students is widespread in different groups and orientation is obvious. There are four main types of views in the facets of awareness and choice of geographical knowledge. There are three types of orientation in the facet of recognizing geographical value, and the last, there are three different understandings about the deviation in the facet of recognizing of geographical nature. External factors and internal factors of impacting pre-scientific view of geography are working together, so that it forms above view types of secondary school students. Integrating the advantages of geographical case study, the author brings forward some advices about recognition case teaching of geographical value in the base of leading factors and restructuring focus from above view types.
Keywords/Search Tags:Pre-scientific View of Geography, Geographical Value, Restructuring Concept
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