Education: a discipline or a field? |
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| Authors: | Hongcai Wang |
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| Institution: | (1) Institute of Education, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361005, China |
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| Abstract: | Historically, scholars have made unfailing efforts to position education as a standard science, but no solid success has been
achieved regardless of the positivistic paradigm, quantitative approaches, or value-free neutral stances they adopted. In
China, scholars have set up a so-called “three independency” standard for the scientific study of education, but it has been
finally proved invalid in practice. As interdisciplines permeate the field of education, education experiences a crisis of
being colonized. After serious rethinking, interdisciplines were widely believed to do more good than harm to education. Therefore,
education is beginning to transform from a “colony” to an “empire”. In this transformation, education finds it necessary to
break the traditional disciplinary boundaries and make it a field in which interdisciplinary communication is contributory
to the enrichment of scholarship.
Translated from Xiamen Daxue Xuebao (Zhexue Shehui Kexue Ban) 厦门大学学报 (哲学社会科学版) (Journal of Xiamen University (Arts & Social Sciences)), 2006, (1): 72–78 |
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| Keywords: | educational theory nature of education discipline field |
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