A Micro-Comparative Analysis of Five Editions of High School Geography Textbooks
-- Taking the Section on "Factors Influencing Agricultural Location" as an Example

Xiaonan Ren; Liming Wang; Junhui Yan*; Libei Wang; Xinxin Liu

doi:10.70711/neet.v4i10.10284

A Micro-Comparative Analysis of Five Editions of High School Geography Textbooks -- Taking the Section on "Factors Influencing Agricultural Location" as an Example

Xiaonan Ren, Liming Wang, Junhui Yan*, Libei Wang, Xinxin Liu

Abstract

A micro-level comparative analysis of "Factors Influencing Agricultural Location" in the five editions of the high school geography
required textbook Geography 2: People's Education Press, SinoMaps Press, Hunan Education Publishing House, Shandong Education Press,
and Zhonghua Map Press edition (abbreviated as Shanghai Education Publishing House hereinafter) was taken by this study. The five different
editions were compared mainly with respect to two aspects: the knowledge structure and the activity design-to make specific teaching suggestions. This way, making full use of the advantages of every edition in teaching practice, making an optimal use of teaching resources, and thus
improving the effectiveness of teaching were aimed at.

Keywords

High school geography textbooks; Textbook analysis; Textbook comparison; Agriculture; Teaching recommendations

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.70711/neet.v4i10.10284

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