The important of world regional geography education increases in the new and open g1obalization society.
So, this thesis focuses on clarifying the characteristics of the unit structure, learning content and learning materials of world regional geogra...
The important of world regional geography education increases in the new and open g1obalization society.
So, this thesis focuses on clarifying the characteristics of the unit structure, learning content and learning materials of world regional geography in the current geography textbooks in elementary and secondary schools.
The result of unit analysis of world regional geography in elementary and secondary school suggest that the scope and intensity of geography be expanding and deepending in terms of the system of unit learing content and learning materials in advanced school.
This means the systematic development of world regional geography according to levels of school is basically possible. However most textbooks simply show flat array of geographical information, from which we can see that world regional geography education still emphasize the past static encyclopedic facts. And yet, unit development in middle school seems more appropriate for learners.
In high school, the most important step on the geography education, the point of issue is that most textbooks are a simple array of regional facts, so they cannot embody the spirit of the curriculum which emphasizes thematic approach in the regional geography learning.
For the sake of geography education development in modern information society, the writers of textbook must have a thorough knowledge on curriculum and take careful notice on writing textbook.
Moreover high teachers must to understand that the choice of textbook has an important effect on the geography education and need to take prudent attitude in selecting textbook.