Study On The British Junior Middle School Geography Texbooks From The Perspective Of Inquiry Learing

Inquiry learning has been the focus of national curriculum reform, geography education at home and abroad has put great emphasis on geographic inquiry learning. Geographical inquiry learning contributes to the development of science ability of students, the scientific interest; help students obtain the geographical scientific method, the development of knowledge networks; it also can help students to cultivate the spirit of science and humanistic quality.British geography course concerned about the ability of students to explore geography very much. From the standards of course to the preparation of teaching materials are permeated with the idea of inquiry learning. My study from the perspective of the inquiry learning to study on the middle school geography textbooks, to analyze the selection and arrangement of content of textbooks how to facilitate students'the implementation of geographic inquiry learning. Through literature, to definite the meaning of inquiry learning, understand the study status of geographic inquiry learning and the penetration of the status quo geographic inquiry learning in geography textbooks at home and abroad. Overall this is a total - sub-structure.First of all, respectively, from the structure of materials on the presentation and organizations of content to analyze inquiry learning reflected in the United Kingdom the junior middle school geography textbooks.Secondly, analyze inquiry characteristics of from the part of physical geography, the part of human geography and the part of regional geography. Such as natural geographic part of the textbook focus on the basic principles of physical geography, the basic law and basic process of inquiry. Human geography guide students some attention to multi-angle, multi-level analysis of human geography problem. Regional geography emphasis on encourage the student to grasp the understanding of the process in the region to explore the general procedure.Finally, on the basis of the study concluded. And sort out the reflection of characteristics of inquiry learning in our current junior middle school geography textbook, on the basis of the comparative study of junior high school geography textbook written on the recommendations.