社会科学方法论与高等教育研究

在自然科学、社会科学与人文科学这种知识分类框架下,教育学的学科地位非常尴尬。从早期的“(自然)科学化”、到后来的“人文化”,再到晚近的“社会科学化”,教育学的学科性质始终变动不居。作为教育学的分支学科,高等教育研究面临同样的困境。本文认为高等教育研究若要从根本上提升自身的学术地位,成为真正意义上独立的学术性学科,积极引入社会科学方法论是极其关键的一步。

Methodology of social sciences and higher education research

There is no right place among the frame of knowledge's classifications,namely human sciences,social sciences and natural sciences.In fact from initial humanities to subsequent scientification and social-scientification educational development's tendency is always fluctuant.Now higher education research in China was faced with the same puzzlement.This paper holds that if higher education research want to improve academic level distinctly and become social science or independent academic discipline ultimately the first and important step is to introduce methodology of social sciences.