On the Isolation and Construction of School Culture and Social Culture

On the Isolation and Construction of School Culture and Social Culture

From the normative characteristics, school culture has a strong control and rebellion. How to talk about the isolation and structure between school culture and social culture.

First of all, about isolation.

School culture is subordinate to education culture, which means that education culture is subordinate to social culture relative to family education culture and social education culture. There must be some differences at the edge of the intersection of different cultures, and some differences are not significant, such as there is no significant difference between family education culture, social education culture and social culture, and the cultural gap is not obvious; School culture is very different from other cultures, and the cultural gap is obvious. So what's the difference between school culture and social culture? What are the characteristics of the isolation between them? The author thinks it is necessary to analyze the four characteristics of culture, namely, use characteristics, normative characteristics, cognitive characteristics and artistic characteristics. ①

(A) isolated characteristics

It should be noted that the following characteristics are mainly aimed at school culture. As its concept, social culture does not necessarily have these characteristics, or it is not obvious, or even the opposite. Therefore, the characteristics of school culture can be used to explain the main characteristics of their isolation:

First of all, from the user characteristics, the school culture is obviously closed and collective. The so-called characteristics of users, that is, the material elements of culture, are equivalent to material culture. Taking architectural culture as an example, compared with social architecture, buildings in schools have their own characteristics. The fence not only plays a safe role, but also blocks the bad interference from the outside world, ensuring the tranquility and cleanliness of the school. This closeness directly affects other deep cultural factors on campus, infecting the whole school? Xanadu style? Ivory tower? Color. Moreover, because there are a large number of collective people in schools, classrooms, dormitories, offices and restaurants in schools are all regarded as public places without exception, and individuals lack private space (some schools don't even allow students to install locks, bed curtains and other facilities in dormitories and classrooms to separate personal space). The characteristics of these devices are gradually internalized into the sense of closeness and collectivity of teachers and students, making it easier for them to identify with their peers and isolate or even oppose other members of society.

Secondly, from the normative characteristics, school culture has a strong control and rebellion. The so-called normative characteristics refer to the institutional factors in culture, which is equivalent to institutional culture. As a subsystem of social culture, school plays an important role in cultural inheritance. It is controlled by many social factors and even less free than other cultures. Specifically, it can be analyzed from two aspects: ② From the perspective of control mechanism, school culture is not only restricted by informal control systems such as cultural stereotypes and cultural traditions, but also by formal control systems? The constraints of cultural ruling groups, such as curriculum, have always been the focus of social and cultural ruling groups. Accordingly, the cultural norms of teachers and students are far more than those of other members of society, and the changes in the moral level of teachers and students are more likely to cause social surprises, such as? Teachers' moral decline? 、? College students' moral decline? Emotion is actually the subconscious control of school culture. Judging from the means of control, the control of school culture can be carried out in many aspects, such as law, discipline, norms, economy, public opinion, information and so on. For example, the general shortage of funds makes the school this? Ivory tower? Show? Value righteousness over profit? 、? Value spirit over material things? The more corrupt, the more embarrassing the value orientation. In contrast, social culture is less controlled, cultural subjects are more independent, and the possibility of losing control is greater. For example, many parents are strict with their children, but they are completely confused about themselves. Big dyeing vat culture? .

Complementary to controllability, school culture is bound to be more rebellious, that is, dissatisfaction and resistance to the control, criticism and transformation of social culture. Taking the growth of children as a clue, we can find that this rebellion has several climaxes: first, the first negative stage of childhood, which is mainly manifested in biological resistance, such as refusing to help if you don't listen to your parents; Second, the second rebellious period of adolescence, mainly manifested in psychological resistance, such as resistance to parents and teachers, and enhanced self-awareness; The third is the critical period of youth, which is mainly manifested in rational resistance, such as betrayal and reflection on academic authority and social reality. Throughout history, we can find that this rebellion of school culture plays an important role in cultural changes. The May 4th Movement in China and the May Storm in France have proved that school culture, especially the campus culture of universities, is sensitive and rebellious to the times. Campus is the cradle of revolution to some extent.

Third, from the cognitive characteristics, school culture is more basic and faster.

Artistic features and cognitive features are isomorphic to the spiritual level in culture. As far as its artistic characteristics are concerned, school culture can basically be classified as? High culture? ,? Ivory tower? On the one hand, it highlights its intimacy, on the other hand, it highlights its whiteness and nobility. Compared with the mixed social culture, the school culture is cleaner and more elegant, which makes people have too many beautiful youth memories. And then what? Campus literature? 、? Campus songs? The popularity of several times also shows that school culture occupies an irreplaceable position in the literary garden with its freshness and clarity. However, it is undeniable that compared with the profound social culture, the school culture is a bit thin. Campus literature? The theme is not beyond the scope of the school. Campus songs? Often lost in the tone of sentimental nostalgia, its vitality is too immature compared with the great literature and music forged in social culture, thus affecting its cultural value.

From the above four characteristics, we can see that school culture shows its own personality everywhere and keeps a certain distance from social culture, which people who have lived in a certain culture for a long time will always feel? Ivory tower? With what? Big dye vat? Confrontation and isolation.

(B) the root causes of isolation

Why does it cause the above isolation? The author thinks that it should be analyzed from the social functions undertaken by schools, the social nature of school institutions and the age characteristics of educational objects.

1. Judging from the social functions undertaken by the school, education has started since the emergence of human beings and has gone through a long process of regularization and institutionalization. In this specialized and even industrialized school education stage, the school undertakes the important mission of transforming physiological labor force into realistic labor force and passing on human civilization to the next generation. In order to quickly and effectively instill the human civilization accumulated by children for thousands of years into the minds of the younger generation in a short time, a series of elements such as teachers, courses, teaching methods and examinations must operate like factories, and the original individualized teaching must also become collective teaching because of the expansion of educational objects. The big education that was originally integrated with social life has finally evolved into today's fence education. Tower? This is formed.

2. From the social nature of the school organization, the school first exists as an administrative organization, and it must be closely supervised by the society and accept the proven courses; School is a kind of unproductive institution, which must receive economic nourishment from society; Schools are also institutions whose main task is to transmit knowledge and ideas, and most of the staff are members of society with high knowledge level. In community division, schools are often regarded as a city or a region. Proud? (4) Choose its geographical location, management personnel and curriculum carefully, especially in? Tower? A top institution of higher learning can represent the comprehensive reputation of a country and region to some extent. The above nature determines that there must be an obvious gap between school culture and surrounding social culture. Ivory tower? The metaphor vividly shows the environment around the school? Stand out from the crowd? Phenomenon.

3. According to the age characteristics of the educated people, under the current academic system, most of the educated people are 7-24 or 25 years old, which is the morning and spring of a person's life, and the one-off and non-retrogressive nature of the current education also determines that people will attach great importance to this only ten years and place high expectations on the school. The age characteristics of children make campus culture present a youthful, non-utilitarian and pre-figurative style. People around them consciously or unconsciously maintain this closed and clean ivory tower, and do not require teachers and students living in it to be confused with social culture. It was not until one day that they had to leave their accustomed campus and move towards a real and complicated society that they suddenly found out what they were like. Different? The result must be to return to the campus to continue the original cultural life, or to wear off the traces of the campus and melt into the torrent of society. It can be seen that this ivory tower is the product of the current education system and was jointly built by people.

(C) the advantages and disadvantages of isolation

The uneven social and cultural situation shows that proper isolation is conducive to the younger generation to thrive in a relatively clean, elegant and safe campus environment. Many characteristics of school culture itself are positive and can promote the development of social culture. On the whole? Ivory tower? Metaphor is greater than praise. But we can't help but see that long-term isolation can only cultivate greenhouse flowers with social maladjustment, and graduates often suffer a lot in the first few years when they go to society, and even completely change their values acquired on campus; This cultural gap between school and society is only suitable for a closed society with more cultural isolation than cultural integration. Nowadays, in the face of increasingly diversified cultural waves, Ivory tower? It has increasingly exposed the shortcomings of narrowness and self-sufficiency. It is the natural mission of our contemporary people to break the isolation, cross the cultural gap and find a bridge between school culture and social culture!

Second, about architecture.

The previous analysis of the isolation between school culture and social culture seems to give people an impression of complete separation and no connection at all. In fact, isolation is relative From the perspective of cultural space, isolation is partial, while from the perspective of cultural time, isolation is temporary. As the opposite of isolation, architecture has always existed and is being strengthened, and it will inevitably replace the existing isolation in the future, so that the two will eventually move towards cultural life and universality.

(a) Since the past, there has been a hidden cultural bridge.

From a historical point of view, culture is continuous, and the gap between cultures is relative, just like? Ditch? Figuratively speaking, it is only highly sinking, and the bottom of the ditch is not connected. So is the school culture. While fighting against social culture, there has always been a cultural bridge, either bright or dark, which can be illustrated by the following two examples.

1. School culture did not fall from the sky, but was selected by social and cultural layers. As an important part of school culture, curriculum culture obviously has the above characteristics, such as foundation, control and elegance. But from the source, it is still a part of social culture, born from the matrix of social culture, and inextricably linked with each other.

2. School culture is only a part of the daily life of teachers and students. In fact, both society and schools are on the same boat. On the one hand, teachers get along with students and colleagues on campus and feel the cultural characteristics of the school, on the other hand, they get along with parents, relatives and other social people and never leave the social environment. Students may have to change three roles in class, on their way to school and at home, that is, obedient students on duty, playmates chasing each other and spoiled only children. It can be seen that schools have never monopolized people's lives, and people's activities have always served as an invisible bridge between school culture and social culture.

(b) From today's point of view, the isolation between cultures is becoming looser and looser.

If we say that at the beginning of this century, school education can still maintain its own closeness, stand in a corner of social culture and act as a person? Peach Blossom Garden? Then by the middle of this century, with the advancement of the new technological revolution, the process of cultural diversity and cultural integration has also greatly impacted the field of education, and the gap between school culture and social culture has gradually become unnecessary and unsustainable, which can be analyzed from both internal and external aspects.

Externally, the strong offensive of mass media and the rapid development of information technology have gradually lost the cultural authority of school culture. Television, computer, Internet and other emerging media are impacting the walls of school culture with their obvious attraction and advantages. The fourth component alongside family education, school education and social education? 6. Become the most powerful competitor in school education. In addition, the new teaching method makes it possible to copy and implement the teaching process from a distance, and the original cultural isolation will surely become history.

Internally, the awakening of the main body of school culture is the internal driving force that is no longer isolated. With the development of culturology and other disciplines in this century, the study of school culture has gradually attracted people's attention. Its subjectivity experienced the initial freedom and self-knowledge, and began to move towards self-consciousness and self-action, which was proved by a large number of campus culture studies. This awakening of the subject makes the school culture realize its own shortcomings, so as to truly look at the society soberly and seek the best way for its own development. For example, many people of insight discussed the cultural significance of school fences and revealed their disadvantages. If the movement of tearing down the wall in colleges and universities in previous years is mainly a response to the market economy, then the socialization of logistics services, community education and online schools in colleges and universities that have emerged in recent years are all open to the society. The awakened school culture will deal with the dialectical relationship between itself and social culture more rationally, such as cross-culture and cultural universality, and isolation will eventually become integration.

(C) From the future, lifelong education and a learning society

As mentioned earlier, school culture and social culture will be realized. One of the root causes of isolation is the one-off and non-return of education, and people can only receive school education within a certain age. Although this system has its psychological basis, that is, it is more teachable when young, but the following problems, such as theory divorced from reality, excessive academic burden and insufficient learning motivation, have been plaguing the education sector. With the development of education today, various indications show that lifelong education is the general trend and a learning society is the ideal of all mankind in the 2/kloc-0 century. From the cultural point of view, lifelong education is to break the existing barriers between schools and society, so that people of any age can receive any form of education. As the main position of education, schools will accept educated people of all ages, occupations and cultural backgrounds. ⑦ The whole society will make it possible for everyone to receive education through various institutions and extensive social education networks, and gradually upgrade the social culture into a learning society with continuous progress and innovation. By then, schools will no longer be? Ivory tower? Become everyone can come in and out at any time? Gas station? ; Society is no longer worried? Big dye vat? It will become a cultural garden where everyone is willing to live, enjoy and struggle.

Isolation has become * * *. The school wall may still be there, but it is no longer quiet and neat, but has become a beautiful landscape dotted with cities and villages.

Precautions:

Yin: China Cultural Outlook, China Peace Publishing House, 1998, pp. 64-66.

② ③ See Yang Huai and Gong Yizhou: The Mystery of the Ivory Tower? Chapter 9 The concept of campus culturology? Control of campus culture? People's Communications Publishing House, pp. 40-42.

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