埃德蒙·金教育决策理论探析

The Analysis of Edmund J.King's Educational Decision Theory

埃德蒙·金是英国当代著名比较教育学家、文化相对主义分析模式的杰出代表。他在吸收波普尔等人哲学思想的基础上形成了著名的教育决策理论,以形象的图解方式详细地描述了影响教育决策的相关要素,并进一步阐述了具体流程。埃德蒙-金教育决策理论所包含的教育背景分析观点、文化主义研究范式以及研究人员素质的拓展理念,对教育决策科学化与规范化的制定起到了重要的基础性作用,同时也对比较教育理论的丰富与繁荣产生了深远影响。

Edmund J. King（1914-2002） is regarded as a distinguished comparative educationist in Britain and the most important representative figure of cultural relativism. He has established the educational decision-making theory based on Popper＇s philosophical ideas, which describes various elements affecting educational decision making and interprets its flow in schema. Some standpoints in Edmund King＇s educational decision making theory, such as the analysis of educational background, the cultural relativism paradigm and expanding of researchers＇ ability, play important and fundamental roles in the process of decision-making, and have far-reaching impact on the richness and prosperity of comparative education theory.