迈向学习型社会的重要宣言——写在《学会生存》发表40周年之际

An Important Declaration Towards A Learning Society——In Memory of the 40th Anniversary of the Report of the Faure Commission of UNESCO

2012年是联合国教科文组织报告《学会生存》发表40周年。报告对世界教育发展最重要的贡献有两点,一是对教育旧观念和旧制度的缺陷与弊病的深刻批判;二是对教育发展新趋势的深刻研判,并在此基础上提出若干极为重要的教育新理念与基本原则。40年来,该报告有关教育民主、终身教育和学习型社会建设的思想对世界各国的教育政策和社会发展产生了广泛而深远的影响,对深刻认识消除教育不平等和不均衡现象对社会进步的重大意义以及深刻认识教育改革的迫切性和必要性起到了巨大的推动作用,对世界各国终身学习体系和学习型社会的构建至今仍具有指导意义和建设性作用。但也不可否认,报告受时代局限,也存在种种不足,如明显夸大了教育在社会发展中的作用,对教育发展和教育改革取得的成果期望过高;对教育改革与创新的艰巨性估计不足;在若干重要问题上存在盲点;在大力倡导终身教育理念的同时,对如何建立终身教育理论与实践的联系缺乏足够深入的探讨。

2012 will be the 40th anniversary of the Report of the Faure Commission of UNESCO titled＂Learning To Be＂. The Report has made a tremendous impact in the world including China since it was published in 1972, especially in the building of a learning society based on the principles of lifelong education and educational democracy. Although the Report is too optimistic from today＇s points of view in terms of the relationship between education and development, and it cannot be denied that the Report exaggerates the importance of role of education in shaping of a new society, its basic ideas of the lifelong education and the learning society have never been out of date. The discussion and reflection of outcomes of educational reforms and innovations are also profound, although the expectation of the Report towards the educational development and reforms seems too high. The main purpose of our research is to re-examine the important contributions of the Report towards the building of a learning society and its main shortcomings.