Excellent Cases and Critical Reviews of Research-Based Learning in High School Politics

Author: Li Zhangyou
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Publish Date: 2005-07-01
Features: Everyone is talking about research-based learning; but they don’t know how to implement it. Now, with the carefully selected cases we have compiled for you, we demonstrate excellent topics, methods, and techniques for various research-based learning activities. Research-based learning is an educational activity where students, under the guidance of teachers, select and determine topics from nature, society, and daily life for research, actively acquiring knowledge, applying knowledge, and solving problems in a way similar to scientific research. It is a growing trend for secondary schools to carry out research-based learning.
1. Conducting research-based learning meets the practical needs of adapting to the college entrance examination reform. Research-based learning questions have appeared in the college entrance examination, with the earliest introduction in the independently developed Shanghai exam.
2. Conducting research-based learning is essential for cultivating students' innovative spirit and practical abilities. The Ministry of Education has included research-based learning as part of "comprehensive practical activities," along with social practice, community service, and labor and technology education, and has listed it as a compulsory course in the "National Curriculum Plan for General Senior High Schools (Trial Revision)." Research-based learning is a key component of the basic education curriculum reform.
3. Conducting research-based learning addresses the need to resolve the issue of relatively outdated political textbooks. The contradiction between the practicality, timeliness of politics and the relative obsolescence of political textbooks is a challenge teachers must consistently address in teaching.