对语文课程“工具性”的新思考

Rethinking of Chinese Course as an Instrument

语文课程"工具本质"观已成为当前彻底认识和清晰定位课程性质的关键障碍。通过历时性考察,认为中华人民共和国成立前"工具性"仅是语文课程功能属性而不是本质属性,中华人民共和国成立后,根据社会生活需要以及语文思想界与各种非语文现象所展开的斗争,"工具性"混同于"形式性"并被逐步推上"本质属性"高位。可见"工具性"作为本质属性并不是从来如此天经地义,语文"工具性"应该回归一般属性本位,语文课程本质内涵可由"性质+特点"的方式来明确。

The concept ＂instrumental essence＂ of Chinese Course has been the crucial obstacle to completely realize and clearly define the nature of the course at present. An diachronical survey shows that the＂instrumentality＂ was only the functional property not the essential property before 1949, and after that, the social needs and the struggles between the Chinese field and non Chinese fields resulted in ＂instrumentality＂ condusing with ＂exernalism＂ and gradually its ＂instrumentality＂ was inproved to the status of ＂essential property＂. The history shows that its ＂instrumentality＂ is not so from the beginning. In fact, it should return to the common property and the essence of Chinese course can be defined by ＂property plus feature＂.