近代中国大学教材建设的总体特征和历史意义

Overall Characteristics and Historical Significance of University Textbook Construction in Modern China

大学教材建设是近代中国高等教育改革的重要内容之一。其过程凝聚了近代各个大学和各个出版机构的共同心血,反映了近代学者和大学教师欲使西方文化知识符合中国发展需要的共同心声。近代中国大学教材建设还是一个由缺失、零散、失衡到体系内容逐步合理的过程。这一过程与近代大学的学科建设和课程改革互为表里,与近代人才培养和国民教育相伴始终,不仅推动了近代中国大学学科的发展,促进了近代中国大学课程内容的完善,而且对近代中国国民意识的培养产生了重要的影响。

University textbook construction is one of the important contents of modern Chinese higher education reform.The process embodies the common efforts of modern universities and publishing houses and reflects the common aspiration of modern scholars and university teachers to make Western cultural knowledge meet the needs of China’s development.The construction in modern China is a process from absence and imbalance to reasonable system and content.It is complementary to disciplinary construction and curriculum reform and has always been accompanied by modern talent training and national education,which promotes the development of disciplines and the improvement of curriculum content of modern Chinese university and has an important impact on the cultivation of modern Chinese national consciousness.