论高等教育研究的特性与学科归属

高等教育研究有无自己的特性问题关涉到高等教育学的学科地位如何。事实上,高等教育研究不仅拥有教育的基本属性,而且具有自己的独特属性,这表现为它在研究目标上具有终极性,在研究过程上具有复合性,在研究课题层次上具有更强的宏观性,在研究行为上具有自组织性,在研究结果呈现方式上具有自明性等特点。这些特性最终决定了高等教育研究的学科归属,即高等教育研究既是社会科学研究,又是应用科学研究,同时还是综合科学研究。

On properties and subject category of higher education research

Whether higher education research has its own properties has much to do with its state in science.In fact,higher education research has not only the basic educational properties but also its distinct properties,which is shown in its ultimacy of research target,complexity in the research course,macroscopy in its level of research subjects,self organization in its research behavior and self-evidence in its way of result presentation.These properties determine the subject category of higher education research,that is,it is both social science research and applied science research,and simultaneously,comprehensive science research.