評析吳俊升對杜威教育思想的研究   全文下載

Critical Analysis of Tsuin-Chen Ou’s Research on Dewey’s Educational Ideology

筆者長期以杜威的教育思想為研究重點，早知吳俊升於1930年代起，即持續不斷研究杜威的哲學與教育思想，以致成果豐碩且卓有聲譽，值得後人效法，乃於縷述其研究杜威的機緣後，確認其研究杜威與他人不同之處有三：三次與杜威會面，以澄清有關疑點；兩度赴美專門研究杜威思想，以蓄積評析能量；為杜威編撰年譜，以增進對其理解。在一一分析其研究杜威教育思想的主要著作後，本研究指出吳俊升在知識真誠與批判態度兩方面可資學習；其在對杜威教育目的論及教材教法論的若干評述應予商榷。最後，本研究指出，吳俊升從未自藝術或美學觀點論述杜威教育或美育思想，固可由後人接續研究；而其於論及研究杜威思想所採取的批判方法時，很少解釋批判的意義，亦值得後人斟酌探討。

The author has researched Dewey’s educational ideology for numerous years. Early in these investigations, the author recognized the reputation and accomplishments of Tsuin-Chen Ou in the field of research on Dewey’s ideas. Tsuin-Chen Ou became established in the field in the 1930s, and the scholar’s research style has been instrumental and exemplary for later scholars. Thus, Ou’s legacy motivated the author to write the present paper. Based on a review of the author’s own research on Dewey’s educational ideology, the author identified the professional merits of the famous Deweyan scholar, Ou. Ou met with Dewey three times to clarify relevant concerns, and completed two periods of study in the United States in which the scholar comprehensively and critically analyzed Dewey’s educational thoughts and edited the chrolonogy of Dewey’s work to enrich the scholar’s own background knowledge. After analyzing Ou’s main works on Dewey’s educational ideology, the author concluded that Ou’s intellectual honesty and critical attitude should be studied and emulated, and Ou’s criticism of Dewey’s theories regarding subject matter, teaching methods, and the goals of education should be further discussed. Future studies may examine Dewey’s educational ideology from artistic or aesthetic perspectives, and the implications of the critical methods adopted by Ou should be considered in supplementary explanations.