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清华大学教育研究[ISSN:1001-4519/CN:11-1610/G4]

卷:

期数:

2024年01期

页码:

6-16

栏目:

可持续发展与教育

出版日期:

2024-02-20

文章信息/Info

Title:

The Climate-Nature Emergency and Higher Education

作者:

西蒙·马金森

牛津大学 教育系

Author(s):

Simon Marginson

Department of Education, University of Oxford

关键词:

气候紧急状况; 生态; 过度消费; 政府; 权力下放; 高等教育; 儒家思想; 科学

Keywords:

Climate-Nature Emergency; ecology; over-consumption; government; devolution; higher education; Confucian learning; science

分类号:

G649.1

文献标志码:

A

摘要:

气候紧急状况是一场生存危机,迫切需要人们从根本上改变社会经济发展的主导模式。在竞争性积累和过度消费造成的破坏中,当务之急是建立一种可持续的道德秩序,体现建设性的人与自然的关系以及人与人的关系。按照涂尔干的观点,道德秩序的主要组成部分是国家和个人:国家是集体利益的重要保障,个人则负责自我完善和实现社会价值。气候紧急状况突显了世界各国的能力,既要在中央层面有效组织,又要对地方机构下放权力,使其能够有效解决地区问题和灾害。高等教育机构与政府合作,在以下方面发挥着核心作用:推进和捍卫科学,提升治理的知识和技能,培养在地方、社区、国家、区域和全球范围内有效开展社会行动的反思性主体。气候紧急状况还呼唤对课程进行全面改革,使其符合生态生存的要求。高等教育具有先进的跨国合作能力,可以助力民族国家推进稳定的全球合作进程,这一合作进程充满困难却至关重要。在解决这些问题方面,中国和中国的高等教育具有强大的内生传统,包括古代传统和近代传统。这些传统包括中华民族的共识作用,其在有效运用时可以获得广泛的公众支持;在中央政策框架内进行深度权力下放的治理方式;儒家文化所倡导的修身,能够培养出具有自我反思能力的终身学习者;以及“天下”的观念——一种基于道德价值观和行为规范而非强制的全球合作方法。如果再结合西方所尊崇的个人自由和主动性,上述特质在中国乃至全世界应对气候紧急状况方面都将大有可为。

Abstract:

The Climate-Nature Emergency is an existential crisis that makes urgent the need to fundamentally transform the dominant model of social and economic development. Amid the wreckage created by competitive accumulation and hyper consumption, the crucial need is to develop a sustainable moral order, embodying constructive human-nature and human-human relations. Following Durkheim, the main components of a moral order are the state, which is the crucial repository of collective interest, and individuals who take responsibility for self-improvement and the implementation of social values. The CNE foregrounds the capacity of states everywhere to both organise centrally and foster devolved community agency that can effectively address local problems and disasters. Working with government, higher education has a central role to play in advancing and defending science, fostering skills and knowledge in government, and in developing reflexive agents effective in social action in all of the local, communal, national, regional and global scales. The CNE also calls up the need to overhaul the curriculum to render it consistent with ecological survival. Higher education has an advanced capacity to cooperate across national borders and can assist nation-states in the difficult but vital process of building stable global cooperation. In addressing these issues, China and higher education in China have strong endogenous traditions, ancient and recent, on which to draw, including the consensual role of the Sinic state, which when functioning effectively draws on widespread public support; governance through deep devolution within the framework of central policies; Confucian self-cultivation with its capacity to foster consciously reflective lifelong learners; and tianxia an approach to global cooperation founded in moral values and norms of conduct rather than coercion. When combined with the Western respect for personal freedom and initiative, these qualities have much to offer in addressing the CNE, not only in China but across the world.

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