中国比较教育研究发展:质性研究路径选择

Development of Comparative Education Research in China:Orientation of Qualitative Approach

本文提出中国比较教育研究发展的质性研究路径选择议题,着重讨论了其合理性、必要性、制度保障等内容。文章重点讨论了中国比较教育研究中比较的不充分性问题,具体表现为:比较单位的整体性和局部性之间的矛盾,对象国之间教育优势和劣势的比较认知差距,比较单位的历史性和当代性之间非一致性,比较单位的文明性和现实性之间的落差,比较单位实践论和认识论之间的不可通约性,比较单位的本体论和价值论之间的不可调和性,比较单位之间的时间错位性,比较教育学者的研究身份在本土性和他国性的研究对象选择上的分隔性,比较教育理论建构的中国力量不足。进而论证中国比较教育研究发展的质性研究路径选择的必要性,并提出中国比较教育研究发展的质性研究路径选择的制度保障的建议。

This paper focuses on orientation of development of qualitative approach of the comparative edu-cation research in china, discusses the legitimacy, necessity and institutional guarantee of the qualitative approach. It also put emphases on the contradiction of universality and particularity, the cognition gap of the comparisons of advantages and disadvantages, the non-conformance of historicity and contemporariness, the gap between their civilization and reality, the incommensurability of the ontology and epistemology, the time dislocation among the comparative units, the separation of the comparative researcher＇s identity in units selections of the ours and others, and the lack of discourse power of Chinese researchers in building the comparative education theory. All of these aspects have led to the necessity of orientation of qualitative approach in Chinese comparative education research. The paper proposes suggestions of the institutional guarantee for the qualitative approach of Chinese comparative education research.