教育现代性的反思与批判

近代以来兴起的现代性,以工具理性和单子式个人主体性为核心.这种普遍的行为态度深刻地影响着教育,造成教育培养的人只具有工具的理性,而缺少价值的关怀.教育的内容为科学世界所独霸,生活世界被殖民化.实证主义带来的客观的、科学的知识观,使知识丧失了情境性和主观性,使教学成为对知识的占有,而不是思想的生成.单子式的个人主体性,使教育过程呈现出主客对立关系,取代了本该存在的主体间的平等交往关系.教育的现代性,异化了完整的人,也异化了教育过程中人与人之间的关系.我们必须反思和批判教育的现代性,进而超越教育的现代性,使教育"返璞归真".

Reflections on and Criticism of Educational Modernity

Since the beginning of modern times, modernity, with instrumentalism and individualism as its core, has become a prevailing attitude among people and deeply influenced education. As a result, those educated by schools only care about instrumental value of education and ignore the value of care and the content of education has been monopolized by sciences, and human life has been colonized. Positivism has brought about an objective and scientific view of knowledge, making knowledge separated from contexts and subjects. Consequnetly, teaching is commonly regarded as a process of possessing knowledge, not as a process of developing thinking. Individualized subjectivity has also brought about a hostile relationship between educators and students, rather than a relationship of equal interaction between individuals. Thus, modernity of education has alienated the whole of beings, and also alienated the personal relationships during the process of education. Therefore, a critical reflection on the modernity of education, transcending it, and returning education to its original truth is called forth.