西方教育思想史研究的视角与视野

The Views and Perspectives of the Study of the Western Educational Thought History

The Views and Perspectives of the Study of the Western Educational Thought History Based on more than ten domestic books on history of western educational thoughts written in the last 20 years， this paper analyzes their compiling and writing methods， as well as different recognitions of the history. It finds that there are problems existing in these researches on history of western educational thoughts—homogeneous view， narrow horizon， etc. These problems block the related researches to go deep and extended. It is held that transferring the view and avoiding the limits between different compiling and writing methods are necessary. It is better to grasp then educational problems， social backgrounds and knowledge of the educationists from the whole development of the history of educational thoughts， to analyze the shaping of his or her thoughts， the main themes and historic influences from a dynamic view. It emphasizes the necessity for updating the essentiality of history of educational thoughts， broadening the research horizon， enriching the source of research materials， and deeply exploring the educational thoughts of historic influence.