A Comparative Study Of The Structure Of Electromagnetics In Physics Textbooks In China And The United States

Teaching materials play a significant role in the curriculum reform and real teaching situations.The comparison among them can promote textbook writers to further understand educational philosophy and ideas,inherit and further develop their excellent styles.Meanwhile,it can also help students and teachers integrate the textbook structural system,use teaching materials rationally and effectively and improve the quality of education and teaching eventually.In order to quantify the research of teaching material structure,and based on the Interpretive Structural Model(ISM),this thesis makes a comparative analysis of Contents under the "Electric and Magnetic" topics of Physics published by People's Education Press and Physics Principles and Problems.The procedures of this study are as follows:the extraction of key elements,the formation of the relationship between elements,the solution to the matrix,and finally drawing hierarchical map.Furthermore,according to the final hierarchical graph,the comparison will be conducted between the same content in the two books from four perspectives:the selection of key elements,the arrangement of initial elements,the arrangement of node elements and the relationship between elements.This article compares and studies the structure of two sets of textbooks,analyzes and summarizes the similarities in the compilation of two sets of textbooks.The main contents are:(1)The content reflects the unity of the basic and the times.(2)Rich forms of expression,both scientific and interesting.(3)Pay attention to the cultivation of students' scientific inquiry ability.Due to the differences in curriculum objectives,student cognition,values,emotions and attitudes,and social needs in different countries,there are differences in the choice of materials,presentation of concepts,formation paths,and presentation methods of the two sets of textbooks.To compare the differences in the structure of the two sets of textbooks,and to provide reference and basis for Chinese textbook writers and first-line physics teachers,and to propose some research suggestions for the reform and use of textbooks:(1)The setting of knowledge gradients should be more reasonable.(2)The path of relationship formation should be more in line with the psychological development of students.