The Retirement of Nature and the Rise of Experiments:The Changes of Scientific Tradition in Centennial Primary School Science Textbooks
The expression and presentation of scientific tradition is an important reference for understanding science education and curriculum.Based on the three-dimensional division of scientific tradition(tradition of natural history,experimental tradition,mathematical tradition),the research divides the development history of primary school science textbooks into five stages:late Qing and early Republic of China(1904-1922),after the New School System of the Repub-lic of China(1922-1949),after the founding of the People's Republic of China(1949-1978),and after the Reform and Opening up(1978-2001),after the Curriculum Reform in the New Century(2001-2023),a systematic review,statistical analysis,and content analysis were conduc-ted on the scientific traditions in primary school science textbooks in China since the establish-ment of the modern school system.The results show that over the past century,nature has been continuously declining from textbooks,and the tradition of natural history,which was originally the primary position,has been increasingly declining in primary school science textbooks.The experi-mental tradition has replaced it and become the most powerful scientific tradition.The mathemati-cal tradition has become an important scientific tradition,starting from obscurity.
primary schoolscience textbooksscientific traditionstradition of natural histo-ryexperimental traditionmathematical tradition
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