The centrality of education

IF 0.8 4区 教育学 Q3 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION Pub Date : 2023-04-01 DOI:10.1093/jopedu/qhad024
Philip Kitcher
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Abstract This article is intended as a precis of The Main Enterprise of the World and hopes to orient those who have not read it to the symposium discussion that follows. It outlines my own version of a radical rethinking of education. Instead of holding that educational systems should be shaped so as to satisfy socio-economic constraints, interpreted narrowly in recent decades to emphasize the preparation of the young to compete in the global economy, it proposes to view education as ‘the main enterprise of the world’ (in Emerson's resonant phrase). I attempt to harmonize three important educational goals: equipping people to maintain themselves; providing the opportunity for fulfilling lives; and creating citizens who can live and work together to sustain democratic societies. The notion of fulfillment is elaborated by following J. S. Mill in emphasizing individual freedom to ‘pursue one's own good in one's own way’, and requiring the chosen project to contribute to a transhistorical pan-human enterprise. This requires a serious probing of the concept of autonomy. I argue that the reworked notion is closely linked to capacities for democratic deliberation, and, like Dewey, I view regular exchanges among citizens as crucial for genuine democracy. In light of these perspectives, shifts in the labor market, brought about by increasing automation, provide the opportunity for people to undertake rewarding (and properly respected) service work, participating throughout their lives in the education of others. The resulting position has curricular consequences, and these in turn require social and economic changes. I conclude by defending the approach I have sketched against charges of utopianism.
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教育的中心地位
本文旨在作为《世界的主要事业》的简要介绍,并希望那些没有读过它的人能够在接下来的研讨会讨论中找到方向。它概述了我自己对教育的激进反思。它不认为教育系统应该被塑造以满足社会经济的限制,在最近几十年被狭隘地解释为强调年轻人在全球经济中竞争的准备,而是建议将教育视为“世界的主要事业”(用爱默生的共鸣短语)。我试图协调三个重要的教育目标:使人们有能力自我维持;提供充实人生的机会;培养能够共同生活和工作以维持民主社会的公民。在强调个人自由“以自己的方式追求自己的利益”,并要求所选择的项目为一个超越历史的泛人类事业做出贡献时,实现的概念得到了j.s.密尔的阐述。这需要对自主的概念进行认真的探索。我认为,这个重新定义的概念与民主审议的能力密切相关,而且,像杜威一样,我认为公民之间的定期交流对真正的民主至关重要。根据这些观点,自动化程度的提高所带来的劳动力市场的变化,为人们提供了从事有回报(并得到适当尊重)的服务工作的机会,并在他们的一生中参与对他人的教育。由此产生的地位会对课程产生影响,而这反过来又要求社会和经济变革。最后,我为我概述的方法辩护,反对乌托邦主义的指控。
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期刊介绍: Journal of Philosophy of Education publishes articles representing a wide variety of philosophical traditions. They vary from examination of fundamental philosophical issues in their connection with education, to detailed critical engagement with current educational practice or policy from a philosophical point of view. The journal aims to promote rigorous thinking on educational matters and to identify and criticise the ideological forces shaping education. Ethical, political, aesthetic and epistemological dimensions of educational theory are amongst those covered.
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