A Comparative Study On Curriculum Standard Elective Chemistry Textbooks For Senior High School

Textbooks as the materializing stuff are the material embodiment of the curriculum standard as well as the important resource and medium for teachers and students. With the publishing of the new curriculum program for senior high school and curriculum standard for every subject in 2003, the senior high school curriculum experiment is put into practice. Until now, textbooks of three editions have appeared. They are separately published by People's Education Press, Jiangsu Education Press and Shangdong Science and Technology Press. And they have been put into practice in Shandong Province, Guangdong Province, Hainan Province and Ningxia Province. The diversification of textbooks proposed in the new curriculum setting will bring us more questions to study. How to make full use of the textbook in teaching and how to improve the compiling of the new textbook have become the problems needed to be solved urgently in the practice of the new curriculum.We hope that we can offer this thesis for teachers in their choice and implementation of the new textbook as well as offer reference and enlightenment for the people who compile textbook.The paper consists of four parts.The first part puts forward the problem, the aims, tasks and methods of the study and includes literature review. the thesis summarizes the current situation of the high school chemistry textbook. It includes both domestic and international research on the textbook compiling, analysis and evaluation of textbooks and the compare on textbooks along with the requirement for textbook design under the curriculum standard.The second part is the thesis study base. The paper constructs the model of textbook analysis, that is, the structure of the textbook decide on the realization of its function. If the structure is good, then the function will be good. Structure of textbook for primary and middle school students consists of three sub-structure, namely, the content structure, procedure structure and presentation structure of textbooks. The three restrict one another and realize the total function of textbooks---- that is, improving students'personal development. Among them the contents structure of textbooks is the basis of the whole system, which instructs procedure structure and decide on presentation struction together with the latter. The presentation structure of textbooks lies in top of the whole system, which shows the content structure and procedure structure. The precedure structure combines the content structure and presentation structure and is the medium of them, which also controls the other two. Therefore, when we research into the design of structure of textbooks, we must focus on the optimization of these three sub-structures.The third part, which is the emphasis of the paper, is the analysis of the textbook. According to the model, this part analyzes the three editions concretely. For the analysis on the choice of the content, the thesis lists the concrete content and the columns in the textbook which embody the content standard, it also points out the inconsistency between the textbook and the curriculum standard. For the organization of the content, on one hand, the paper has analyzed the system of the textbook, on the other hand, the paper has analyzed the concrete organization idea of the typical content, including basic organic chemical theories, important organic compounds, STS content, experiment content. As for the showing of the content, the paper has analyzed it from the following four aspects column, illustration, exercise and the style of writing.The fourth part is the conclusion and introspection. On the basis of analyzing in an all-round way, the paper summarizes the characteristics of the three editions respectively, and introspect as follows: 1) how to consider the lagging-behind of textbooks; 2)how to solve the contradiction between too much knowledge and limited class time; 3) how to teach students in accordance of their aptitude with textbooks 4) how to cultivate students'creativity; 5) how to exert the function of each column of textbooks; 6) how to design suitable exercises.