教育口述史:功能、信度与伦理

Oral History of Education: Function, Reliability and Ethics

教育口述史是教育史与历史学结盟的产物,其作为一项学术实践的兴起与当代哲学的实践转向有关。教育口述史是运用质性研究方法,以教育实践活动中的人的记忆为主要对象,具有保存与解释教育史、形成参与教育史学、构建公共教育史学的学术功能。教育口述史在实践中饱受叙事真实性、可靠性的质疑,从虚假记忆与不可靠的叙述两方面来分析其效度问题,有助于更好地理解教育口述史作为一种研究方法的可行性。

Oral history of education is the product of the alliance between history of education and history in general.As an academic practice,the rise of oral history of education is related to the practice turn in contemporary philosophy.Adopting qualitative research methods and taking the memory of people in education practice as its main object,oral history of education plays the academic functions of preserving and interpreting the education history,participating in building a history of education,and constructing the history of public education.Oral history of education has been questioned in practice about its authenticity and reliability of narration.Analyzing its validity from such two aspects as false memory and unreliable narration is helpful to better understand the feasibility of using oral history of education as a research method.