Investigation And Analysis On Educational Research Of Middle School Geography Teachers

In the days of curriculum reformation, we have found an indispensable problem that teachers are being in dilemma. On one hand, teachers are placed on high hope. People think the success or failure of curriculum reformation is finally determined by teachers' comprehensive quality and professional ability. On the other hand, most middle school teachers are facing many difficulties and problems because of our national conditions,historical tradition and the pattern of training teachers. Especially in curriculum consciousness,curriculum knowledge and the ability of developing curriculum. At present what can embody the openness,epochal character and comprehensiveness of curriculum is supplying and expanding the present teaching materials, but how many teachers could be satisfied? The development of society requires that education must be adapted to it, and education reformation drives the middle school teachers into dilemma. How to make them stay away from the dilemma? The only way is the professional development of middle school teachers. The key is that middle school teachers should be "researchers". Therefore, they need to change their traditional way of teaching, establish new educational and teaching idea and finally become "research-professional teachers" from "experiential teachers" or "teaching teachers".At present, many middle schools take "educational research' as an important term that could improve their scientific research level and promote their teachers' professional development. Many middle school teachers are doing educational research, so do many middle school geography teachers. Then, what is the situation of educational research by middle school geography teachers? What forms do they choose? What difficulties do they meet? What role could it play in promoting their professional development? We take the situation in Changning District as an example and try to find some reasonable answers for the above questions in this paper. We expect this paper could help middle school geography teachers' research.This study's research method is the combination of literature research and investigation research. Investigation research takes questionnaires and interviews as its major tools. The questionnaire survey covers 53 middle school geography teachers from 31 schools in Changning District, Shanghai City and the interviewees are 5 geography teachers and 1 teaching and research personnel. The analysis of materials adopts the method of quantitative and qualitative analysis.The paper consists of 5 parts:The first chapter mainly expatiates the origin of this study and brings forward that the core issue of study is that the new curriculum's implementation requires middle school geography teachers to be researchers. The development of our education has offered a favorable time. This study's research method is also expatiated in the lead-in part.The second chapter deals with the theoretical summary of middle school geography teachers' research, expatiates the definition of research and educational research, and introduces the situation of middle school geography teachers' research at home and abroad.The third chapter deals with the investigation and analysis of middle school geography teachers' research which takes Changning District as an example. This chapter is one of the main contents of this paper. This chapter simply introduces the design of the investigation questionnaire and interview outline, and analyzes the results of the investigation and interview in detail.The fourth chapter deals with the problems in Chapter three and some suggestions. This chapter is also one of the main contents of this paper.The fifth chapter is concluding remarks, which contains how to study this subject further.