从探索规律到阐释文化——教育史研究的新路径

From Law Exploration to Culture Interpretation——New Method of Educational History Research

教育史学具有社会科学与人文学科的双重属性,它不仅探索教育的演化规律,也揭示人类教育活动的文化意蕴。多年来,国内的教育史研究,存在以科学探索取代人文阐释、重"西学"轻"中学"、知识结构失衡、研究成果影响不广等局限,损害了自身的学科价值。为了走出学科发展的困境,教育史学应从探索规律扩展到阐释文化。这一新的研究路径,要求"科学"与"人文"并重,扩大学术文化视野,树立教育史研究的整体观和全局观,"通"、"专"结合,从逻辑论证走向价值重构。

Educational history not only explores the law of educational transformation,but also the cultural meaning of human educational activity.For a long time,in domestic educational history researches there existed a tendency of focusing only on scientific researches while ignoring liberal interpretation;valuing Western learning but ignoring Chinese leaning;the result has been an unbalanced knowledge structure and small influence of research achievement etc.In order to find a way out of this disciplinary developing dilemma,educational history discipline should extend from rule exploration to cultural interpretation.As the new research method requires an equal stress on science and liberal art,an enlarged cultural vision,a whole and overall view of educational history research,so we should combine the general with the expert,move from logic demonstration to value restructuring.