历史教材编写中几个关键问题的处理原则——新中国历史教材建设系列谈(一)

The Principles for Some Key Problems in Compiling History Textbooks—A Series Discussion on New China History Textbook Construction(Ⅰ)

中小学历史课程是一门思想性很强的课程，历史教科书盼编纂质量及建设完善直接关乎广大青少年的健康成长。历史教科书在编写过程中有几个关键问题的处理原则应当认真把握，即要有正确的指导思想，要体现时代精神和中国国情，要着眼于学生的思想教育和能力培养。在科学性方面，选材内容要有足够的科学依据，要注意全面、立体地反映历史的真实面貌，对历史人物的评价要实事求是，要处理好历史学科体系和中学历史教学需要之间的关系。本着有益于教与学的原则，历史教材应具备以下性能：要有层次性、生动性、启发性及研讨性和实践性，教材内容要有统一性和灵活性。

The curriculum of primary and secondary history is a subject with strong ideology. The compiling quality and construction of history textbooks directly relate to healthy grow-up of the teen-agers. Some principles should be grasped in compiling history textbooks, that is the correct guiding ideology, reflecting the spirit of our age and the situation of China, focusing on students~ ideology education and ability training. As for the feature of science, the content should have scientific basis, the real feature of history is required to be fully and three-dimensionally reflected, the evaluation on historical individuals should be practical and realistic, the relationship between history subject system and the demands of secondary history teaching should be appropriately handled. The history textbook should have the characteristics of coherence, vividness, enlightenment, discussion and practice, and unity and dynamic in contents.