Abstract The development of Chinese middle school chemistry textbooks,since the foundation of People's Republic of China,can be divided into five phases. The problems in the development lie in:the relation of social politics,ideology and the development of chemistry textbooks; the connection between theories in chemistry textbooks and practices in reality; the update of chemistry textbooks;the sequence in composing elements,compounds and basic theories;the accordance between the construction of academic knowledge and students' cognition;learning foreign chemistry textbooks etc.Review on those problems and revealing the laws behind the historical development can provide hints and enlightenment to the improvement of Chinese middle school chemistry textbooks.
LIU Yibing. Review on Problems in the Development of Chinese Middle School Chemistry Textbooks Since the Foundation of New China[J]. Chinese Journal of Chemical Education, 2013, 34(1): 11-15.
