A Study On The Application Of Mind Mapping In Ideological And Political Review Course Of The Third Year

A Mind Map is a graphical way to represent ideas and concepts. It isa visual thinking tool that helps structuring information in a colorfulway that is easy to remember and resembles much more closely how the brainactually works. Since it presents know]edge and the connection amongelements in an effective and vivid way, through which we could see thethinking process of students, mind mapping has been gradually adopted ineducation over the past years. As a useful learning method, it helpsstudents to think widely and in good order, improving their learningefficiency, expanding their memory capacity, and finally unlocking thepotential of their brain.The application value of mind mapping in education has been widelyaccepted by educators. However, the application of mind mapping inreviewing ideological and political courses has not yet been studied tillnow. Therefore, this paper introduces mind mapping into this area, withthe aim to help students have a micro-comprehension of the knowledge, aswell as to help them capture the whole structure of this course throughmind maps. When creating a mind map, they actually restructure theknowledge in their own way, integrating them into their own internalizedknowledge system. After analyzing the adoption of mind mapping for seniorhigh school students in reviewing ideological and political courses, thispaper hopes to optimize the reviewing process of ideological and pol iticalcourses, and also finds new approaches to improving their]earninginterest, self-reviewing ability and reviewing efficiency.There are five chapters included in this paper. Firstly, it introduceshow the topic comes up, its research status, the definition of mind mapand its theoretical basis, significance and methodology, etc.. In thesecond part, it illustrates the importance of using mind maps inideological and political courses to improve student’s capability inremembering, comprehending, analyzing, integrating and applyingknowledge that has been taught. In the third chapter, this paper presentshow to create a mind map with the usage of convergent, radial, logicaland intuitive way of thinking. Then, it creates a mind map based on theteaching materials of ideological and political courses of senior highschool students. Finally, in the fifth chapter, the paper discusses howto optimize reviewing strategies of ideological and political courses forsenior high school students in terms of concepts, theories and politicaltopics respectively.This paper combines mind mapping with the reviewing of ideologicaland political courses of senior high school students, in order to findanother effective way to learn ideological and political discipline. Itis a helpful exploration and attempt in this area, and improvements areneeded in future studies.