象牙塔:坚守与走出、重构与超越——读德里克·博克的《走出象牙塔——现代大学的社会责任》

Ivory tower:Stick to or Walk out,Reconstructing or Transcending:Reading the Derek Curtis Book's“Beyond the ivory tower:social responsibilities of the modern university”

大学自诞生之日起就在"象牙塔"的庇护下保持着学术独立、自治、自由的历史传统,并长期徘徊在社会的边缘。随着现代社会的发展,大学与社会的关系愈来愈密切,社会要求大学走出象牙塔并为社会提供服务的呼声越来越高,从而使大学面临一系列难题:大学究竟要不要走出象牙塔?假如要,该如何走出象牙塔、如何保持其基本学术价值?。对于这些问题,博克认为大学既要坚守象牙塔,又要走出象牙塔,更要超越象牙塔以维持两者的平衡。对我国大学象牙塔精神存在的问题进行反思有利于我国大学象牙塔精神的重构。

Since birth of the university, it always maintains the historical traditions of intellectual au- tonomy, academic autonomy, academic freedom under the potation of ivory tower and it is always been on the fringes of society. With the development of the society, the relationship between universi- ty and society becomes more and more closer, the society calls for the university to walk out the ivory tower to provide service for the society. As the result, the university is faced with a series of prob- lems. weather does the university walk out the ivory tower, how does the university walk out the ivo- ry tower, how does the university keep its basic academic value when it walk out the ivory tower, etc. In the Bok＇s point of view, the university should not only stick to the ivory tower but also walk out the ivory tower, and also transcend the ivory tower to maintain the balance between them. Based on the analysis of the Bok＇s view, this paper reflects upon the spirit of the ivory tower in our university and puts forward some solutions to these problems, hoping to provide some valuable reference for the reconstruction of the university＇s spirit of the ivory tower in our country.