高等教育大众化的文化向度研究

On the Cultural Orientation in Studies of Popularization Higher Education

我国当前高等教育大众化研究受三种思维模式影响,出现了两种研究取向,一种是技术向度研究,一种是文化向度研究,并且以技术向度研究为主导。文章从多元决定论出发,阐述了文化研究向度观点,认为高等教育大众化实质上是一个高等教育价值观不断调整的过程,采取文化向度研究更适宜揭示高等教育大众化的社会行为本质,指出技术向度研究方式存在着"线性"方法论缺陷。

There are three main thinking modes in studies of higher education popularization, i.e., materialism, idealism, pluralism. Two orientations exist behind these studies. One is technical orientation, the other is cultural orientation. The former seeks the precise relations between the scale of higher education and the level of economic development, the later stresses the major value which determines higher education development.