Study On The Comparative Teaching Method In Cultural Life In Senior High School

The comparative teaching method is designed to compare the nature and feature of two different concepts, phenomena and theories to draw the right conclusion to improve the cognitive level of educatee. It has become a teaching method for educators to apply the comparative teaching method to cultural life teaching activities in senior high school on account of large amounts of comparable content resources in Cultural Life. Meanwhile, the educators have imposed the influence on educatee and make them adopt the method, thus the educatee can clear the inkling, distinguish the wrong thinking and correctly treat the culture at all times and in all over the world. The appeal is unable to break through for educator in teaching the Cultural Life and the fact of students disagree with some viewpoint in Cultural Life and other factors have determined the necessity in applying the comparative teaching method into Cultural Life in senior high school. The possibility of combination the Cultural Life and the comparative teaching method is based on abundant course contents offering comparative space, the rich category in the comparative teaching method offering the comparative approach and the educational concept of seeking common points while reserving difference and swallowing anything and everything offering the comparative mental preparation.There are two principal contradictions in Cultural Life, one of which is that Cultural Life has so many confusing concepts, making it difficult to teach and learn for educators and educatee, the other one is that Cultural Life is an ideology and politics course and some of the viewpoints and values is beyond the pales of the students. The comparative teaching method has complicated classification. And the comparison of interior and the exterior and radiation comparison and comparison of seeking common ground and seeking difference are most frequently used in Cultural Life. The method of the comparison of interior and the exterior and radiation comparison is in favor of distinguishing the relation and difference between similar concepts and beneficial to the students to master knowledge structure and build knowledge system. While, the method of the comparison of seeking common ground and seeking difference is conducive to cultivate divergent thinking of students and reveal the hot cultural topics the students concerns.As for the design of teaching cases used, it is noted for educators that the train of thought and process for teaching design should be complete. In case of applying the method of the comparison of interior and the exterior and radiation comparison, the utilization principle, comparison routes, case or story should present distinguishing the conflict and use the chart or knowledge tree graph to compare the achievements. If the method of comparison of seeking common ground and seeking difference is applied, the educator should deal with several relations well, select the contents suitable for this method based on the reality and teaching materials, pick large amount of cases around the comparison purposes to describe them and, where necessary, use electronic equipments to improve the understanding of students and show the comparison achievements in a visual form. At last, the contents not convenient to use the methods of the comparison of interior and the exterior and radiation comparison and comparison of seeking common ground and seeking difference in the teaching materials should be accompanied by other necessary comparison teaching method.