Research On The Image Of Russia In Unified High School History Textbook

Russia is a neighboring country of China,which has a long history and plays an important role in the development of world history.Russian history is an essential part of high school history textbooks.By using the relevant theories of history,pedagogy,psychology,and imagery to study the Russian image in high school history textbooks,it can be found that the Russian image presents obvious stage characteristics.The textbook presents the image of Russia in different periods and dimensions,as listed below.The Byzantine atmosphere of Kievan Rus,the rising Principality of Moscow,the reform and expansion of the Russian Czarist state,the Russian Empire as the "expansionist colonialist","the old empire with contradictions and weakness",and the image of the "socialist revolutionary leader" and "the emerging power isolated by the West" in the Soviet Period,The Soviet Union has multiple images,such as "explorer of socialist construction","ally against fascism","crippled giant with abnormal development","leader of the socialist camp","big brother in the eyes of new China" and "Superpower during the Cold War",and contemporary Russia is active,cooperative and open.On the whole,the image of Russia in the state-compiled of high school history textbooks is integrated and multi-faceted,which can completely outline the development track of Russian history.Compared with the previous textbooks,there have been new changes,paying more attention to the overall writing of the Russian image.At the same time,the qualitative expression of the new edition of the textbook has been slightly adjusted with the changes of the times.The arrangement method pays more attention to the students’ learning situation and attaches importance to building the logical structure system of the discipline,showing the development trend of "learning-oriented".The changing image of Russia presented by textbooks also brings new challenges to teaching.As a history teacher,we should update our educational concept in time and pay attention to the academic frontier.We can find the connection between junior and senior high school textbooks by making a comparison table,and supplement teaching resources appropriately,so as to make the presentation of Russia’s image more full.Infiltrate the educational goal of international understanding in the teaching process,pay attention to the overall and multi-faceted understanding of Russia’s image,and help students identify the Russian image in textbooks in various ways,highlighting the characteristics of Russia’s image in different periods and different perspectives.Combining the creation of Russian image with the cultivation of competencies.By matching chronology of events,sorting out historical clues,building historical situations,capturing realistic materials and other methods,to help students build a comprehensive,stereoscopic and accurate image of Russia.