The Training Strategy Of The High School Students Interested In Geography

The essay focuses on the documentary research into the essential concept of interest. It is acknowledged that interest is one of the basic emotions of human beings who are born to have the instinct to develop interest. The content of interest, which is subject to the object and dependent upon the psychological state of the subject, actually comes from the interaction between the subject and the object. The object that inspires interest is constantly changing and meanwhile the subject is growing too, which defines interest as a development process in motion, in which the subject and the object are unified. Interest is not isolated but related to many psychological characteristics. Interest, which is connected to the cognition and emotion, shows up and develops when there is a demand for it in the process of social practice. The essay does further research into the mechanism to develop interest, namely the transfer from situational interest to individual interest.By means of questionaires and interviews, the essay does research into the high school students'study conditions of geography, the interest level of geography study, the time to begin forming interest in geography, the people who influence their geography study, the method of geography study, the demand for geography study, the attitude towards the subject of geography and teachers, and the evaluation of the textbooks. The essay clarifies the present situation of high school students'interest in geography and the causes.The essay, considering the concept of interest and mechanism to form interest, the essential content of geography teaching and the present situation of geography in high schools, introduces measures to be taken to develop interest in geography. For the convenience of clarification, the essay puts forward the strategies to develop interest in geography in the following four aspects: based on the needs of geography study, based on the successful cognition of geography, based on the emotions, based on the personal differences.