A Comparative Study Of The Activity Columns In Chinese And American High School Geography Textbooks From The Perspective Of Comprehensive Thinking Trainin

At the end of 2017,the Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China issued the "Geography Curriculum Standards for General High Schools(2017 Edition)",which clearly proposed to cultivate students’ essential geography core competencies,including the concept of human-land coordination,comprehensive thinking,regional cognition and geographic practice ability.As one of the core competencies of geography,comprehensive thinking has become a popular research topic,and the relevant results have been enriched.However,the research on the cultivation of comprehensive geographical thinking by using the activity column of textbooks still needs to be strengthened.Geography textbooks are an essential educational resource in geography teaching,and the activity column is the key module of school geography textbooks.In 2012,the United States promulgated "Geography for Life: The National Geographic Curriculum Standards(Second Edition)",and the textbook activity column compiled based on this emphasizes the openness of geographic knowledge and the systematic and comprehensive nature of geographic thinking.A comparative study of domestic textbooks and American textbooks can examine the characteristics of activity columns in Chinese and American textbooks,analyze the unique advantages of activity columns in cultivating comprehensive thinking,and put forward principles and strategies for using activity columns to cultivate geographic comprehensive thinking.In the context of my country’s "General Senior High School Geography Curriculum Standard(2017 Edition)",this paper sorts out the connotation,theoretical basis and research status of "Integrated Geographical Thinking","Activity Column" and "Applied Activity Column to Cultivate Comprehensive Geographical Thinking".This paper discusses the number,type,comprehensive thinking dimension and level of Chinese and American geography textbook activity columns,and finds out the similarities and differences between the two editions of textbook activity columns;Principles and Strategies of Integrated Geographical Thinking.The main conclusions are as follows:First,by comparing and analyzing the number,type,dimension and level of comprehensive thinking of activity columns in Chinese and American geography textbooks,it is found that the two have the same points: pay attention to using activity columns to cultivate students’ comprehensive thinking,and the difficulty of comprehensive thinking level in activity columns is moderate;The differences are: the types of activity columns are different,the theme content of activity columns is different,and the comprehensive thinking dimension of activity columns is different.Second,the survey found that there are the following problems in the application of activity columns to cultivate students’ comprehensive thinking: teachers and students have a lack of cognition of activity columns and geographical comprehensive thinking,teachers’ development degree,teaching methods and teaching reflection of activity columns need to be improved,and students’ learning motivation and geological comprehensive thinking level need to be improved.Third,in order to further make efficient use of the activity column to cultivate students’ comprehensive geographical thinking,the following training principles and strategies are put forward.The training principles include: pertinence principle,subjectivity principle,situational principle and openness principle.The training strategies include: using the mind map flexibly to improve the learning effect;Integrate case resources and create local situations;Optimize the problem design of activity columns and promote the advancement of comprehensive thinking level;Optimize teachers’ cognition and change teaching methods;Design geography experiment activities and cultivate comprehensive thinking in exploration;Integrate the comprehensive thinking analysis process and establish the thinking framework.