93年秋季起在上海各中学推广使用的九年制义务教育历史课本(上海版),是根据上海中小学课程教材改革的总体目标,力求实现两个“改变”(即改变以升学为中心的课程教材体制,改变统得过死、学得过死的教育教学状况)和三个“突破”(减轻负担,提高质量;加强基础,培养能力,提高素质,发展个性)。教材在内容的选取上,以社会需求、学科体系、学生发展为基点,以提高学生素质为核心,形成课程和教材的新体例与新结构。现以八年级第一册为例,略说教材的一些特色: 章节为体 突出主题 The nine-year compulsory education history textbook (Shanghai version) promoted in secondary schools in Shanghai since the fall of 1993 is based on the overall goal of the curriculum reform of Shanghai’s primary and secondary school curriculum, and strives to achieve two “changes” (that is, change-centered learning). The curriculum teaching system has changed the status of the education and teaching system that has passed the death and learned death, and three “breakthroughs” (reducing the burden and improving the quality; strengthening the foundation, cultivating the ability, improving the quality, and developing the personality). With regard to the selection of content, the teaching materials are based on social needs, disciplinary systems, and student development, with the core of improving the quality of students and forming a new style and structure of curriculum and teaching materials. The first volume in the eighth grade is taken as an example to explain some features of the textbook: Chapters