历史社会学视角中的美国大学教育学院研究：评《教育学院之困境》

A Study on Ed Schools from a Perspective of Historical Sociology: A Commentary on “The Trouble with Ed School”

文章对美国社会学者戴维．拉伯雷的《教育学院之困境》进行了评价。该书采用历史社会学的方法分析了教育学院特别是教师教育处于美国高等教育学术科层结构底层的原因，探讨了当今美国大学教育学院的结构特征和教育学院教授的地位，认为教育学院既不会给美国教育带来危害，也没有给美国教育带来帮助。

This paper makes a review on the book The Trouble with Ed Schools written by David F. Labaree， a sociologist from Stanford University. This book uses the approach of historical sociology to analyze the reason for the low status of education schools especially teacher education in the academic hierarchy of American higher education ， and probes into the structural feature of education schools in current American universities and the status of their professors. The book concludes that education schools has done no harm and provided no help to American education.