1910-1930年代,主要受“实用主义”及“儿童中心”、“生活本位”等教育思想的影响,我国教育界在教科书内容如何兼顾地域特点与城乡差异以促进儿童发展上做过积极的理论和实践探索。学者们围绕教科书内容应符合儿童未来还是当下的生活经验、公共的还是地方的经验等问题展开了争论。提出了不要任何教科书而由教师自行编写、不要流行的教科书而由各地自行编写、以流行教科书为本而酌情增删、书局编印不同版本的教科书、书局编印偏向农村版的教科书等各种解决办法,同时也指出无论哪一种办法都有一定的利弊。在实践探索方面,除了多数教科书注意文字和插图内容的普适性以适合各地共同使用外,还专门编写了内含某一区域内容以适合单一区域使用的教科书。
From 1910 to 1930, due to the influence of "Pragmatism" "Children-oriented" "Life Standard” and other educational ideology, our country education circle had made the positive theory and the practice exploration on how to balance the regional characteristics and differences between urban and rural areas in order to promote children's development. Scholars argued that the content of textbooks should be consistent with the children's future or current life experience, shared or personal experience. Various solutions had been proposed by these academics , for example, textbooks should be written by teachers rather than published, they advocated to write textbooks from region to region, press published version of the textbooks should be of rural bias, they also pointed out that no matter what kind of method has its certain advantages and disadvantages. In the practice exploration, In addition to text and illustrations in most textbooks ought to cater to widespread use, special textbook that contained specific content which suit to use a single region were also designed.