Research On Reproducing Geography Textbook In View Of Sub--modernized Course

For a long time, we stick to the old concept that "Textbook means Knowledge" and "Textbook is the Foundation" and we used to consider the textbook as an absolute carrier of the knowledge of all subjects, And the contents of the textbook must be the final conclusion, the acknowledged principle, rule and law. The contents must be an absolute authority to teachers' teaching and to students' recognization. Dominated by this concept, textbook has long been the foundation of the class, the decision of the teaching work, and both teachers and students have become the dependency and the slaves of the textbook. During the newly-round course reform, more and more people have realized that the "Absolutionized" and "Authorarized" textbook can not conform to the tend of the time. Then what concept of the textbook should we,—the main body of the teaching and learning —teachers and students, have ? In the practical teaching and learning process, how shall we deal with the relation between teachers and students, and the textbook they are having ? Guided by the concept of the sub-modernized courses, the essay puts out that the textbook ,with the view point of sub-modernized courses, should have the following functions; 1) to promote an all-round development of the students, 2)to cultivate the self-study ability of the students, 3)to train the students' creative thinking, 4)to emphasize the ideological education of the courses, 5)to promote the teachers' creative teaching, 6)to enhance the interaction of the participants. And, therefore, compared with the function of our currently-used textbook, based on the evolution of our currently-used textbook, and especially in view of these problems existed in our geography textbook, in which it is hard to reflect the combination of the educational goal of the tripartite and it is not favorable to cultivate the creative thinking with so many maps and pictures but with few questions, the essay says the necessity of reproducing the new geography textbook. With the historical transformation of the final goal of the newly-round course reform------transforming...