Research On High School Students' Ability To Propose Questions

With the development of quality-oriented education, the ability to propose geography question has attracted more attention by educators. Geography educators have already done series of research on this. However, most of these studies tend to focus on general education without distinct geographical characteristics. This paper attempts to make a breakthrough. It can be divided into 3 parts:The first part is theoretical part. On the basis of the research achievements in this area from previous research, this paper then defines the concept of geographical issues and elaborates the three elements of the ability to propose geographical questions: the awareness of questions, the ability of representing geographical situation, and the ability of expressing geographical questions. Then, the author establishes the evaluation system of the students'ability to propose geographical questionsThe second part is investigation part. The paper makes a comprehensive and objective investigation on the current situation of high school students'ability to propose geographical questions through questionnaire. The research shows that the high school students lack the awareness of proposing questions, and the quality of questions is below the average level; the author also investigates geographical teachers in order to grasp their understanding of geographical questions, their attitudes towards students'questions proposing during classes, their habitual action in cultivating students'ability of proposing questions, and some suggestions on cultivation measure, etc.. The results show that most of the teachers are more theoretical than practical.The last part is strategy part. On the basis of analyzing investigation and the operational level of teaching geography, this paper proposes corresponding strategies to the following aspects—building harmonious classroom atmosphere; creating the problem scenarios, training geographical thinking; setting up communication platform; building evaluation system of geographical problems etc.