论教育伦理学的个体善与社会善

作为一门从伦理道德的视角对教育活动进行价值分析和行为导向的交叉学科,教育伦理是个体与社会教育伦理的有机统一。现代教育伦理在研究视阈上不仅要关注个体教育善的实现,而且应重视社会教育善的构建。个体与社会之教育善是个体与社会教育伦理把握教育世界的精神实践,两者都存在价值合理性根据,有其应然的一系列规范性要旨。教育伦理研究范畴的这一拓展,既是弥补传统教育伦理研究在作用范围上存在缺憾的需要,也是全面建设和谐社会的内在需要。     

苏格拉底之死与公民教育的绝唱

哲学追求永恒与美好,政治实践则总有欠缺.哲学与政治处于冲突之中,哲人苏格拉底就死于这种冲突.但不能忽视的是,教育在这种冲突中起了关键性的作用,没有他对公民的教育,就没有他的死亡.而且,这种教育即使在他被控告、被判死刑时,仍旧没有放弃.在这个意义上,苏格拉底之死同时就是公民教育的绝唱.     

全球化与公民教育：挑战与回应

作为现代性构成要素的公民教育从一开始就与民族和民主的观念紧密联系在一起。具有这一特征的现代公民教育伴随全球化的进展遇到诸多深层次的挑战。迎接这一挑战构成了20世纪末以来公民教育在世界范围内得到复兴和加强的一个重要背景,而对这一挑战进行恰当的理论与实践回应也正是各国公民教育理论与实践界正在积极探索的课题。在今后相当长一段时间内,如何寻求全球认同与本土认同之间的平衡将是这一恰当回应的关键。     

How common is the common good? Moving beyond idealistic notions of deliberative democracy in education

Assumptions based on deliberative democratic theory have dominated scholarship of democratic citizenship within political science and educational research. However, both fields have produced scholarship that raises questions regarding the efficacy of the deliberative model of democratic education. This article presents a critical synthesis that highlights the major trends of deliberative democratic theory from the field of political science, while making connections to education specific literature. The shift, away from idealistic notions toward a model of deliberative democracy that considers identity, group interests, and power differences within society, supports similar efforts to revisit democratic theory within civic education. The article concludes with recommendations for a revised, more realistic, conceptualization of civic education.     

教育伦理规范建设:设定“应然”与昭明依据

在教育的伦理特性受到社会价值取向多元化挑战的今天,强调以善律教是办好公共教育的重要基础。只有教育伦理规范体系自身是合理的,且其设定的内在基础为广大教育者所理解和自觉认同,教育伦理所追求的教育善才是可能和可行的。教育伦理规范的合理性含形式合理性和实质合理性两方面;其内在依据在于教育伦理之应然是现实社会的一种价值表达和价值期待,是教育主体间人伦关系和谐的本质要求,是丰富的教育经验积淀而成的教育实践理性。     

Dutch adolescents’ narratives about democracy: ‘I know what democracy means,but not what it means to me’

In the last decade, educational scholars have studied various aspects of adolescents’ citizenship narratives. This paper reports on a qualitative study into the narratives about democracy of 27 adolescents from an urban area in the Netherlands. The aim of the study was to gain an insight into the type of democratic engagement that Dutch adolescents develop. Fourteen vocational and 13 pre-university students were selected. Each student was interviewed twice. Narrative thematic data analysis revealed that only five students had developed a strong conception of democracy. Our findings suggest that few students had spent time developing and challenging their narratives about democracy, and that few students have developed a greater sense of democratic engagement. Our paper concludes with several suggestions for furthering the study and practice of democratic citizenship education.     

Is it ‘all about having an opinion’? Challenging the Dominance of Rationality and Cognition in Democratic Education via Research in a Gallery Setting

This article reports on findings from a research study exploring the potential for democratic learning in a gallery education project which took place in the UK in 2006–7. In doing so, it also explores a pressing issue for education today: the question of young people's democratic education in a time of political crisis in Europe. The focus of the article lies in a critique of the primacy of rational thought, cognitive skills and verbal discussion within democratic education, and an exploration of the potential role of the arts and art education in challenging this. Specifically, the article argues that there has been an affective and corporeal deficit in democratic education, and that some forms of gallery education are well placed to address this. Although the data discussed derive from a particular time and place (the UK in the latter days of a government that rigorously pursued an agenda of social and economic inclusion through both education and cultural policy), they also have relevance beyond their immediate context, illuminating the nature and dynamics of the process of democratic learning, and its aesthetic and artistic dimensions.