教育学:学科还是领域

在教育学史上,人们为了使教育学变成一门标准科学进行了不懈的努力.但无论是采用实证化路线还是定量化方法,或是采取价值中立态度都没有取得明显的成功.我国教育学者曾制定了"三独立"标准,但这些标准也被实践所否证了.在多学科方法渗透到教育领域的过程中,教育学产生了一种变为多学科的"殖民地"的危机感.经过反思后教育学认识到,多学科加入正是其发展的优势所在.于是教育学开始从"殖民地"向"帝国"的转变.在这一转变中,教育学需要努力突破传统的学科局限,变成一个多学科交流的领域,从而成为一门汇纳百川的智慧学问.

Pedagogy: A Discipline or an Area?

In the history of pedagogical studies,scholars have made every effort to make pedagogy a standard science,but no appreciable success has been achieved whether they adopt the positivistic paradigm or the quantitative method,or the neutral value-free attitude.In our country scholars have set up a standard of "three independency" for the study of pedagogy,but it has been gradually proved invalid by practice.In the process of multi-disciplinarity permeating the field of pedagogy,pedagogy experiences a crisis of being colonized.Scholars realize,after serious rethinking,that multi-disciplinarity gives pedagogy an advantage in its development.Therefore,pedagogy is beginning to transform from a "colony" to an "empire".In this transformation,pedagogy finds it necessary to break the traditional disciplinary boundaries and make it an area in which multi-disciplinary communication is contributory to the enrichment of scholarship.