The Comparative Study On Compilation And Composition Of The High School History Textbooks In The Two Sides Of The Taiwan Straits

On the background of the new reformation of curriculum, both of Chinese mainland and Chinese Taiwan have witnessed a deep revolution on the history textbooks. The textbook reformation of Taiwan focuses on the capabilities and students' study, instead of knowledge and course teaching, while the mainland concentrates on how to transform " textbooks for teaching"to "textbooks for learning" .The dissertation compares two different high school editions, which are published by Chinese Renmin publishing house and Taiwan Nanyi publishing house separately. By comparing their content choice, illustration and column design, the author tries to find the best way to improve the high school history textbook under the ideology of new curriculum.There are three parts of the dissertation as follows:Firstly, taking the Chinese ancient history as a case, the author compares the content choice of the high school history textbook of both sides of Taiwan Strait, from three periods -Qin and Han dynasty, Sui Tang Song Yuan dynasty and Ming Qing dynasty. According to the statistical date of the political history, economical history and cultural history, the dissertation is expected to find similarities and differences of the two textbooks and the propounding educational factors behind.Secondly, the author compares the illustration of the textbook. Based on the date of "the anti-Japanese war" illustration, the dissertation explains the category and functions of the historical illustration, and then concludes the different characteristics of the two textbooks. What's more, how to design the illustration of the textbook is also rethought by the author.Thirdly, the author compares the columns of the two different textbooks. All the textbook columns are divided into three categories—guiding, organizing and consolidating. The author gives her own ideas on the characteristics during the transition from teaching to learning, by analyzing differences of the column design.This thesis aims to find ways improving "textbooks for learning" under the ideology of new curriculum, by comparing the content and form of the two different textbooks. Thus the auther hopes to contribute her own efforts to the development and improvement of the high school history textbook on the background of new curriculum reformation.