A Study of Mr.Tian Shiying's Thought of Geography Education and Its Contemporary Significance
Tian Shiying had written extensively in geography science,geography teaching,and high school geography textbooks,and was an influential geography education scholar from 1940s to 1960s.His thought of discipline and subject teaching deepened people's understanding of geography science and geography teaching in different periods,and played an important role in the development of secondary geography education and instruction.Tian's unique approach to the instruction with key geographical issues helps to break the monotonous and repetitive constraints of geography teaching,promote the transition from teaching geography to learning geography,and is a kind of anti-dogma idea of that era.This kind of thinking also permeates the high school textbooks written by Mr.Tian.The integration of writing styles and the permeation of key issue i-deas also have certain inspirations for future textbook writing and classroom teaching.Mr.Tian's geography education thought and spirit still have the significance of the times,and worthwhile to be learned from its essence,hence empower the high quality development of geography education and learning.