可持续发展视域下的大学知识生产——对话法国国家科学研究中心皮埃尔·凯伊主任研究员

University Knowledge Production from the Perspective of Sustainable Development-A Dialogue with Pierre Caye, Research Director of CNRS

当前,各国政府和高校都在积极推进适应可持续发展要求的高等教育改革。文章基于对当前世界生产体系与知识体系之间密切联系的分析,提出高等教育改革应从多方面入手。可持续发展要求人们扩展对技术的理解,不仅要从物质生产,而且要从改善人与时间和空间关系的角度理解技术和发展的本质,还要求人们重视以知识应用来维护文明传承、促进不同时代知识的交织互鉴。STEM教学和科研的核心在于从整个社会的角度看待学科知识的作用,重视高与低、新与旧技术范式的结合。人文学科则应避免过多受西方中心主义意识形态的影响,走向综合化、博学化的人文知识门类,服务于对人与时间和空间关系的丰富理解。交叉学科研究宜以研究为核心,在学科知识的最前沿,在哲学的鼓励和促发下,让不同学科知识摩擦产生新火花。法国高等教育改革的经验教训是,应鼓励大学之间的协作而非竞争。中法教育文化交流要汇集多方力量,避免西方中心主义偏见,尝试建立国际可持续发展研究机构,促进深度合作。

At present,governments and colleges and universities are actively pushing forward the reform of higher education to meet the requirements of sustainable development.Based on the analysis of the close connection between the current world production system and the knowledge system,the article proposes that higher education reform should start from various aspects.Sustainable development requires people to expand their understanding of technology,not only from the perspective of material production,but also from the perspective of improving the relationship between human beings and time and space;it also requires people to pay attention to the application of knowledge to maintain the inheritance of civilization and to promote the interweaving of knowledge across different eras.The core of STEM teaching and research is to view the role of STEM knowledge from the perspective of society as a whole and to emphasize the combination of high and low,new and old technological paradigms.Humanities,on the other hand,should avoid being too influenced by Western-centered ideologies and move towards an integrated and erudite discipline of humanities knowledge,serving to enrich understanding of the relationship between human beings and time and space.Cross-disciplinary researches are appropriate to be centered on research,be at the forefront of disciplinary knowledge,with philosophy encouraging and facilitating the friction of knowledge from different disciplines to produce new sparks.The lesson learned from the reform of French higher education is that collaboration rather than competition among universities should be encouraged.Sino-French educational and cultural exchanges should avoid Western-centric bias,bring together multiple parties to try to establish an international institute for sustainable development to promote in-depth cooperation.