Study Based On The Sino-us Geography Text Imaging Systems The Image Of Teaching

As part of the surface system, image system is drawing increasingly intense attention in the teaching of geography. Resultingly, the recent characteristics of the new image system as well as its unique value as demostarated in the new edition of the Shanghai-based textbooks deserves further exploration.Owing to the principle of"One Syllabus, One Textbook"that has been practised for many years in China, there has been scarce comparison between textbooks or comparative studies between images in various textbooks. For reasons as mentioned above, the author has done a comparative study on the similarities and differences between the geography textbook currently used in Shanghai and that in the US.The findings are as follows .Both types of textbooks are rich and well-balanced in terms of the quantities of images or graphs, and they each place equal emphasis on the geography maps and gepgraphic landscape sketches when it comes to the type of images. And on top of that, each fully showcases its respective characteristics in the use of the image type, such as the figure sketch in the Shanghai-based textbook and the conceptual map in its American counterpart. In comparison of the quality of the image system emloyed, the two books are more or less matched. However, from the esthetic point of view, the American textbook displaces an more advanced level of professionlism in that the caption they provide are more adequate and that their organization of the images or sketches are better incorporated. Nonetheless, the textbook used in Shanghai are better optimized in the combination of the graphs and illustrations.In order to find out how they evaluate and use the image system, the author carried an survey among the teachers of geography in some senior high schools in Jiading District in Shanghai, which is centered on the meirts and faults of the system, its availability, its effectiveness in actual teaching and so on.With the very research, the author intends to explore the optimization of the images or sketches in the Shanghai-based geography textbooks. The studies has been coducted in the following three aspects. 1. how the use of images or sketches in classroom teaching is strengthened by employing more images and various types. For example, landscape maps could be used to help the students establish their knowledge of the original shape, indicating maps to help develop their fundamental ability of geoegraphic thinking, and atlas to help enhance their overall geographic competence. Secondly, how the effectiveness of the images or sketches is ensured, for the images or sketches that are well selected must be very expressive and adquetely informative. Lastly, whether methods of presenting an image or sketch are scientifically designed in advance, so as to achieve an effective or ideal way of combining the current images while taking the textbook as the primary source at the same time.