高等教育研究的两种取向:本质主义与非本质主义

Abstract

我国的高等教育研究是以本质主义思维方式作为指导思想的,并以学科理论体系建设和建立精确、可操作的研究结论作为自己的价值追求。但在反思了中国高等教育管理体制改革的历程和指导思想之后,特别是在中西学术交汇过程中逐渐地接受了非本质主义的思考方式之后,我国高等教育研究的风格发生了巨大变化,开始走向多元化。展望未来,我国的高等教育研究将在本质主义与非本质主义之间寻求平衡并获得突破,这将会促进中国高等教育研究更趋成熟。

Chinese higher education took essentialism as its base in the process of discipline-building,but now it has accepted non-essentialism as a new way in the reflection of higher education system reform,especially in the communication with the western academic thoughts.The change has brought many new elements to Chinese higher education researches,which provides a new selection to Chinese higher education research.In future,there will have a balance between essentialism and non-essentialism,which will promote higher education research to a new phase.