21世纪初教育经济学研究主题探要

A survey on research themes in economics of education at the early 21 century

文章对国外的《教育经济评论》（Economics of education review）、国内的《教育与经济》和《北大教育经济研究》2001～2008年刊登的文章进行了主题分类分析，发现国外教育经济学研究主题主要以“投资-效益-就业”为主线，以基本理论研究为支撑，并由此延伸出多学科、多视角研究教育实践中复杂的具体问题。而国内教育经济学研究主题主要是以“基本理论-教育财政与教育投资”为主线开展研究，研究面较窄，缺乏多学科视角对现实中复杂的教育实践问题的分析。在新的发展阶段，国内教育经济学研究应立足国情，创新教育经济学理论研究的本土化；关注实践，致力于回答和解释教育改革发展中的现实问题；拓展视野，加强综合性问题的研究。

This paper made an analysis on the articles that were published from 2001 to 20087 in Economics of Education Review and some other magazines. It was found that the research themes abroad concentrate on investment-benefits-employment, with the basic theories as the support involving some specific problems in multidisciplinary fields from various perspectives; while domestic research themes concentrate on the basic theories-education finance and investment. The scope of research is rather narrow involving few specific problems and few perspectives. In the new period of development, the research in economics of education of our country should make more efforts to overcome such defects.