The Loss and Return of Education from the Perspective of "Human Alienation by Things"
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Shan Wang, Jiali Yao, Qingwen Cai
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The phenomenon of "human alienation by things" has already manifested in the field of education. Firstly, educational practice pursues formal conformity to the prescripts of educational concepts rather than the substantive all-round development of humans. Secondly, it emphasizes the usability of education as a "thing," leading people to habitually occupy the material components presented by education. Specifically, the prevalence of educational formalism reduces humans to tools for satisfying the false prosperity of education; the reification of education itself induces the reification of humans, who then crave the symbolic coding of education; and people’s dependence on educational media renders themselves objects dominated by such media. To address the educational dilemma of "valuing things over humans," we must uphold a people-oriented development concept and return to the manifestation of the self through practical reason. This approach can mitigate and effectively curb the phenomenon of "human alienation by things," enabling education to realize the all-round development of humans.
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Shan Wang, Jiali Yao, Qingwen Cai
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