Image Thinking Skills Training Designed To Geography Teaching

In secondary schools the teaching process, the reform of geography teaching a coreresearch is to develop students’ geographic thinking skills. Geography curriculum standardscompulsory requirement textbook knowledge should be close to students ’lives, to understandstudents’ cognitive characteristics, by observing explore geographic representation, revealhidden in one of the geographical pattern. Conducive to development and the importance ofgeography students interested in intelligence, which is the study of geography where the imageof mental training.Particular emphasis on visual thinking geographic geographic representation of thecumulative experience from extensive observation was made personal appearances, especiallyin the inquiry process, students not only use eye observation, but also with the brain to think, tosolve the problem, continue adjust the appearance of the brain has stored, so that theappearance of old and new associate, this process requires the association and imagination.Lower stage of visual thinking is not thinking of it as abstract thinking and ways of thinking arerequired in everyday interactions. Many important scientific development, inspire edge ingeneral is due to start thinking in images, and even some major breakthrough in abstractthinking also comes from occasional intuition. Therefore, the image of mental training studygeography is extremely necessary. From the concept of geographical image of thinking can beseen, the geographical characteristics of the general thinking in images with the image of notonly thinking, but also has characteristics of geographic thinking. Combined with thegeographical features of thinking and thinking in images, geographical characteristics of imagethinking summed up in the following five points: the image, integrity, jumping, creativity andambiguity. Cause of the importance and feasibility of image thinking is: the way of thinking isthinking in images geography, geography has a comprehensive regional and spatialcharacteristics of these two important and comprehensive geographic obviously inseparablefrom thinking in images participate. The main content of geography teaching is the relationshipand image thinking natural geographical environment and human activities are consistentvisualization. Teachers in the teaching process invention, abstracts and use a lot of visualteaching methods, students gain perceptions of geography, lay the foundation for understanding and mastering the basic concepts and theoretical geography.In this paper, the theoretical basis of the image related to mental training.Each of thesetheories has its own valuable perspective lies, but each theory has its own limitations have fit,so the need to study training from multiple angles Students geographic thinking in images usedin geography teaching, increase the flexibility of geography teaching process. This requiresattention to the psychological characteristics of middle school students to learn, attention togeographical representation constructed to ensure geographic image thinking training effect andprocesses.