从中日比较的视角看日本比较教育的发展——日本著名比较教育学家大塚丰教授专访

The Development of Comparative Education in Japan in the Comparative Perspective between China and Japan——An Interview with Renowned Japanese Comparative Educationist Yutaka Otsuka

本文采用访谈研究法,以中日比较的视角与大塚丰教授探讨了日本比较教育发展的历史、学科发展及其危机、田野调查研究方法应用等问题,分析了国际化时代比较教育的使命与功能,并对日本比较教育未来的发展提出了展望。大塚丰教授认为,日本的比较教育是以学习外国教育先进之处为目的发端,并按学术的逻辑发展至今。在网络化、国际化时代,比较教育学仍有其独特的存在价值。网络虽替代了部分田野调查的功能,但田野调查对比较教育研究来说仍是非常重要的。比较教育学者要避免从实用主义观点看教育,做真正的比较教育研究。

Based on the interview with Professor Yutaka Otsuka, this paper discusses the development history, discipline development and its crisis, application of field research and other issues of the comparative education in Japan in a comparative perspective between China and Japan. Yutaka Otsuka suggests that comparative education in Japan aims at learning advantages and strength of foreign education and develops along with academic logic. In the era of internet and internationalization, comparative education still has its own value. Field research is important to comparative education research even if it is partly replaced by internet. The researchers should focus on real comparative research and avoid conducting research through the viewpoint of pragmatism.