Research On Application Of Mind Mapping Based On Cultivation Of Comprehensive Thinking Literacy In Senior High School Geography

As the fundamental task of contemporary education,"cultivating talents through the implementation of moral principles" aims to train socialist builders and successors with all-round development of morality,intelligence,physical fitness and beauty.In order to carry out this fundamental task,the ministry of education proposed the idea "We will deepen institutional reform and cultivate talents through the implementation of moral principles",with curriculum as the core of talent training.Since then,High School Curriculum has been revised to build a discipline core literacy system based on core literacy.The construction of the core literacy system embodies the national educational objectives,which makes the formulation of curriculum objectives and teaching objectives pay more attention to the students’ comprehensive and all-round development.On this basis,geographic educators put forward four core qualities of geography,which include regional cognition,comprehensive thinking,human-geography coordination and geographical practice.Comprehensive thinking,as a basic way of thinking in geography learning,is mainly featured by its comprehensiveness.However,in the current teaching,there are few studies on how to implement comprehensive thinking in teaching practice.Therefore,it is of great practical significance to explore how to cultivate and implement students’ comprehensive thinking ability in high school geography study.Guided by developmental psychology,constructivist learning theory,brain science theory and Piaget’s schema theory,this paper is conducted by using the methods of literature analysis,test analysis,classroom observation,questionnaire survey.It is divided into six parts.In the first part,the background and significance of the research are introduced,in which the research results of using mind map to cultivate comprehensive thinking ability in geography at home and abroad are analyzed,summarized,and discussed.In the second part,several basic concepts,including mind map,the value of mind map in cultivating the ability of geography,the ability of comprehensive thinking of geography are introduced.Most importantly,the correlation between mind map and comprehensive thinking ability of geography,specifically,systematic knowledge construction,divergent geographical thinking mode,comprehensive problem-solving ability,is clarified.In the third part,how National College Entrance Examination examines the comprehensive thinking ability in geography is analyzed by taking three recent three years(2016-2018)’ national volumes of geography in National College Entrance Examination as example.In the fourth part,the basic situation of senior high school students’ comprehensive thinking ability in geography is explored by means of questionnaires.This paper finds that students are weak in comprehensive thinking ability in geography,especially in the mastery of space-time dimension.In the fifth part,how to use the method of mind mapping to cultivate students’ comprehensive thinking ability in geography is illustrated in detail by taking new lectures,recitations and exercises as examples after determining the steps of effective classroom teaching with mind mapping.The last part is the conclusion.The main conclusions of this paper are as follows.Firstly,this paper finds that senior high school students’ comprehensive thinking ability in geography and the current situation of cultivating this ability are not ideal.Secondly,this paper puts forward the strategies of cultivating senior high school students’ comprehensive thinking quality in geography.It is suggested that teachers should make students draw maps by themselves,guide students to use mind maps to identify regional features in map teaching,and encourage students to use mind maps to study regional geographical differences.