Geographical pedagogy

Author: Yuan Shuqi
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Publish Date: 2002-02-01
Features: This book is a research outcome of the Ministry of Education's "Reform of Teaching Content and Disciplinary System for Higher Education Towards the 21st Century," serving as a textbook for the 21st Century Curriculum and the Ministry of Education's "Nineth Five-Year Plan" for geography. The book provides an overview of geographic education from the perspectives of research objects, disciplinary status, development foundations, and research methods. It briefly introduces school geography education in terms of its functions, principles, experiences, and issues, as well as its curriculum and textbooks. It redefines the connotation and extension of the geographic teaching process and elaborates on knowledge teaching, ability development, and moral education in the process of geographic teaching at an operational level. In the methodology of geographic teaching, it discusses geographic teaching models, the system of geographic teaching methods, and the key interactive methods between teachers and students. It proposes the concept of geographic education media, evaluating language media, image media, experimental media, audiovisual media, and computer multimedia. Regarding the forms of geographic teaching, it explains explicit and implicit geographic curricula, the responsibilities and development issues of geographic teachers, the concept, significance, and direction of geographic teaching research, as well as its content, project proposal, procedures, and methods such as surveys, experiments, and teaching methods. This book can serve as a textbook for geography majors in normal universities and also as a reference for other teaching and research personnel.