The Comparative Study Of High School History Textbooks Of "The Political System Of Ancient China"

The history curriculum in senior high school is one of the key and difficult points in the curriculum reform.The diversity of teaching materials requires teachers to have some knowledge of the other versions of textbooks at present."The Political System of Ancient China" is the first aspect for students to study in senior high school,and plays an important part in high school history course.In addition,the difficult points are various,complex,and intensive,with the great differences between the versions.Therefore,it is necessary for us to compare and analyze the contents of four editions of People's Education Press,People's Publishing House,Yuelu Press and Beijing Normal University Press.Through the analysis of this part of the characteristics of overall design,we can find that the contents of the editions of People's Education Press and Beijing Normal University Press are strict accordance with the learning points in the course standard.This approach is conducive to achieving the requirements of curriculum standards,but it gives rise to imbalance in class design.The contents of the learning points of the editions of People's Publishing House and Yuelu Press were adjusted.It is helpful to solve the imbalance of class design,but weakening the time sequence of historical knowledge.In the selection of the content points,the projects of the editions of People's Education Press and Yuelu Press stick to the theme of "The Political System of Ancient China",and the main content is selected in the political system.The editions of People's Publishing House and Beijing Normal University Press select the contents of the ethnic relations and the ethnic policies,except for the political system.In the expression of content points,each version has its own characteristics.There are a lot of notes in the textbook of People's Education Press.The textbook of People's Publishing House pays attention to professionalism and evaluating the role of political systems.The textbook of the Yuelu Press has a sense of propriety,focusing on writing smoothly and correctly.The textbook of Beijing Normal University Press focuses on forms of social development,and quoting the original historical materials.To compare the four textbooks,we will find some problems like unclear expression,even wrong.Furthermore,excessive difference between textbooks may bring into difficulties in teaching or the academic evaluation.To the editors,their statements about the same topic in the future should be adequate and unified as possible in the different revisions of textbooks.In the second place,it's necessary for the editors to actively absorb the research results of the academic circles about the ancient political systems in recent years.It is not appropriate to continue the way of "centralization of autocratic monarchy".Teachers should refer to other versions,and re-integrate the related content.We should make some improvements according to the situation when we meet some parts hard to understand,for example,"the evolution of political system from Han to Yuan".