当前的中国教育人类学研究:内容领域与焦点议题

The Current Research of Anthropology of Education in China:Content and Focus

本文从少数族群教育研究、汉人社会的教育研究和海外社会的教育研究三个方面对当前中国教育人类学的十多个内容领域的研究现状和焦点议题进行了梳理与评论。最近三十多年的中国教育人类学的学科发展与中国的社会和文化转型密切相关。在经历了研究的"人类学化"之后,历史与反思性的研究逐步增多,这表明中国教育人类学正在迈向专业化、学术化的发展阶段。为了避免重复研究,研究的问题意识应该加强,尤其是要把研究论题与当前社会文化转型中的重大教育关切联系起来,并从其他相关学科吸取学养,以提升教育人类学的研究品质。

From three aspects of minority society, Han society and oversea society, the article summarizes and comments the content domains and focus of debate of anthropology of education in China. Over the last thirty years, the development of anthropology of education in China was closely related to Chinese social and cuhural transition. After anthropologizing of the research,historical and reflective researches in- creased gradually, which indicates that anthropology of education is heading for a professional, academic stages. In order to avoid repeated study and improve the quality, ＂question auareness＂ should be strength- ened, especially combining the research topic with the current education concerns in the process of social and cultural transformation, and learning knowledge from other related disciplines.