大学场域中的探究性教学——以西南联大为个案的诠释

Explorative Instruction in the Universities——A Case Study of Southwest Associated University

西南联大的探究性教学具有以下几个特点:整个教学活动表现为展示研究活动的过程、教学过程中为学生指出深入钻研必须参考的文献、具有很强的创造性、教学内容的不断推陈出新。西南联大之所以会出现探究性教学大行其道的盛况,是由其教学与研究合一的特定状况决定的。正是这一探究性教学的广泛存在,才使得西南联大教师能够通过课堂将正确的学术研究的方向指示给学生,把适切的学术研究方法传授给学生,使学生们在最短的时间内受到最有效的学术熏陶。西南联大的众多学子能够在未来的学术生涯中迅速脱颖而出,实有赖于此。

Explorative instruction in Southwest Associated universities bears the following characteristics： all the teaching activities featuring research activities; introducing reference books to the students needed for their deep research in the teaching process; being innovative; having constantly new teaching content. The prevailing explorative instruction in the Southwest Associated University was determined by the combination of instruction and research and it was just the extensive existence of the explorative instruction that enabled the teachers there to point the correct academic direction for students and to impart appropriate research methods to students, so that students could be nurtured in the shortest possible time.