当代教育的文化责任

Cultural Responsibilities of Contemporary Education

社会发展的全球化特征使政治、经济、文化紧密相联,文化在社会生活中的作用愈来愈重要,教育作为文化形成和作用于社会生活的中介应负有文化责任而备受关注。国际竞争的加剧,文化产业的发展,教育服务贸易的扩大,我国的社会生产还不发达,教育发展的结构性矛盾突出,使教育在社会主义和谐文化建设中出现了诸多文化失范问题。我国教育在和谐社会的建设中应然的文化责任主要有:1.当代教育首要的文化责任就是引领社会文化紧随时代潮流,形成占主导地位的体现我国社会主义核心价值观念的和谐文化;2.发扬国民教育的培养功能,养成国民的“文化自觉”意识,形成建设先进文化的能力;3.从知识取向向人文关怀和科学文化取向转型,培养使人与人、人与自然之间和谐发展的建设人才;4.进行文化教育,形成体现和谐社会价值观念和教育本性的教育文化。

Education as the basis of culture formation and social life, has received much attention for its cultural responsbilities that education is obliged to shoulder in the process of globalization. The paper first analyzes the reasons for the many de-standardization problems in our Socialist Harmonious Culture Construction. It then sorts out the responsibilities, namely, （i） leading the social culture along with the times tide to form a harmonious culture that plays a leading role in realizing the essence of our Socialist ideology; （ii） promoting the function of fostering the people and then they form a ＂cultural awareness＂ and the capability for constructing advanced culture; （iii） transforming from knowledge orientation to humanistic care and scientific culture to build up constructive intellectuals who are expected to contribute to the harmonious development between man and man, and man and nature; and （iv） forming the education culture that embodies the harmonious social ideology and the meaning of education.