教育何以关涉权力

Why Education Concerns Power

“权力”不仅是政治学研究的“圣杯”,也是影响人类社会生活诸多领域的要素。传统教育学偏爱“人的教育”的理想阐扬,但“人”从来都是社会关系中具体的存在。教育是培养人的事业,权力因素在其中发挥着重要的作用,从目的到手段、从合法性知识的界定到制度化教育系统的掌控,无不体现着权力的意志。只有理解了教育行动中权力的机制,才能够真正理解教育并发现教育实践中诸多问题的症结所在。

“Power” is not only the “Holy Grail” of the research in political science, but also an important factor that influences many fields of social life. Traditional pedagogy prefers to advocate the ideal of “education of human being”, but “human being” is ever and always be the concrete existence in social relations. Education is the enterprise of shaping people, in which power plays a vital role. From goals to means, from the definition of what kind of knowledge is legitimate to the control of institutional system of education, the will of power can be found everywhere. Only when one understands the power mechanism in education action, can he or she understand education in a real sense and find the causes of problems in educational practice.