摘要
从西方的柏拉图和亚里士多德到东方的孔子,其教育的目的是培养和谐公正的社会所必需的智慧和美德。然而,进入现代社会以来,教育却是以治理和控制自然的启蒙理念为特征,伴随着资本主义自由市场的崛起,教育注重的是如何大规模地开发自然资源,以满足不断增长的消费欲望。这样的教育使公民远离和谐正义的理想,转到竞争和争夺政治权力。因此,当今教育迫切需要为生态文明服务的公民教育,将学生培养成负责任的公民,使其成为下一代社会领导人。实现这种目的的可能路径是,对博雅教育进行反思与改革,注入古代教育的智慧,将其定位为为生态文明服务的公民教育。
Liberal arts education has long been associated with preparing students to become responsiblecitizens and society＇s next generation of leaders. From Plato and Aristotle in the West to Confucius in the East,education aimed at nurturing the wisdom and virtues necessary for a harmonious and just society. However,modern education emphasizes learning how to exploit natural resources to satisfy an increasing appetite forpersonal consumption. Consequently, educating citizens has shifted from nurturing the virtues of harmony andjustice to obtaining skills and techniques that pvmote environmental and social manipulation to satisfy aninsatiable desire for selfish consumption rather than a sustainable, just, and ecologically responsible society forall. How then, might we recapture the original wisdom embodied in the liberal arts education and redirect ittoward educating citizens for an ecological civilization？ This paper takes a small liberal arts college in Kansas asan example to show how to rethink and reform liberal arts education by creating a partnership between thecollege and local community that would help create citizens for an ecological civilization.
出处
《深圳大学学报（人文社会科学版）》
CSSCI
北大核心
2014年第4期22-25,共4页
Journal of Shenzhen University：Humanities & Social Sciences
关键词
公民教育
生态文明
和谐
正义
Confucius
liberal arts
ecological civilization
citizen education
作者简介
保罗·布伯，博士，美国里昂学院教授，从事过程哲学、宗教哲学、生态伦理学研究。
