弥补价值与理性断裂的重要途径——论中学历史教育的时代使命

Era's Mission of the History Education in Secondary Schools:An Important Way to Bridge the Gap between Value and Reason

当下社会面临着价值与理性的断裂。一方面,人们在公共领域中崇尚工具理性,价值仅仅萎缩至私人好恶;另一方面,人们对此理性知识系统的反弹,又投身于具有反智主义倾向的国学热中,而贯穿于知识化与反知识化之中的则是极强的功利主义。人在此异化状态中,依靠作为工具的知识或者反知识来获得成功。历史学科本身蕴含着理性逻辑与人文价值。从中学历史教育阶段开始加强青少年的历史教育,可以兼顾理性与价值,在一定程度上可以起到纠偏的效用。

In today＇s society, there is a gap between value and reason. First, people believe in instrumental reason in the public field, so value is reduced to personal likes and dislikes; Second, people＇s responses to the knowledge system of reason are indulged in the national learning craze~ which is characterized by the anti--intellectualism trend, so the in- tense utilitarianism goes through the process between knowledge drive and anti--knowledge move. People, in such an alienated state, succeed by means of the knowledge as tool or anti--knowledge. History, as a subject, contains rea- sonable logic and human value. Thus, in the period of history education in secondary schools, it is necessary to strengthen the history education of youngsters , so as to strike a balance between value and reason and then to a cer- tain extent play an effect of rectification.