国家教委颁发的《全日制中学地理教学大纲》,将培养学生“学习地理的兴趣、爱好和独立吸取地理新知识的能力”明确列入教学目的。这是一处重要的变化,从一个侧面反映了教育面向世界的要求。众所周知,对苏联教育有巨大影响的苏联教育科学院院士巴班斯基提出了十项教学原则,其中就有“激发学生认识兴趣和知识需求的原则”、“积极性自觉性原则”;对美国及世界学校教育有很大影响的布鲁纳提出了四项教学原则也把“动机原则”放在首位;日本 The National College of Education’s “Full-time Middle School Geography Teaching Outline” will clearly include the students’ “learning geography interests, hobbies, and the ability to independently learn new geographical knowledge”. This is an important change that reflects the demand of education for the world. As everyone knows, Babansky, a member of the Soviet Academy of Education Sciences, who has a tremendous influence on education in the Soviet Union, proposed ten teaching principles, among which are the principle of “inspiring students’ interest in understanding and knowledge, and the principle of conscious initiative”; Bruner, who has a great influence on American and world school education, put forward four teaching principles and put the principle of “motivation” first; Japan