The Classroom Discourse Research In The Light Of Habermas' Normative Pragmatics

Education, cultivating people's souls, is becoming more and more complicated and complex in modern and post-modern society. People keep on complaining the difficulty of education and have no idea of what it leads to. Fortunately, many theorists and practitioners have developed affective education theories and methods. The wisdom accumulated over time guideliness right direction for education.The author notices that Habermas' critical methods in his thoery construction can shed light on the classroom education puzzled by modernism and provide us with the ability to seek a "minimum reasonability". It may bring hope to modern classroom education, especially to the classroom discourse limited by instrumental rationality. Meanwhile, it may also provide reference to our country's elementary education curricula promoting discourse-centered teaching. This paper aims to associate Normative Pragmatics of Habermas with classroom discourses, analyse the relationship between them, eg. applicability, specificity, limitation, and hopes to find a way out for classroom discourses limited by modernism and improve our theoretical system of classroom teaching.This paper consists of three parts. Introduction explores the causes of the research question, raises the question, analyses it in the aspects of the transformation from Epistemology to Ontology and the inner connection between Normative Pragmatics and classroom discourses. Also in introduction, the writer explores the research methods of the paper - the methodological approach of a mixture of causal analysis and philosophical hermeneutics; specific research methods, eg. library research, hermeneutics, empirical research, speculative method; and the discourse analys is technology in an empirical level.The Body consists of four parts. The first chapter introduces Normative Pragmatics of Habermas. After a general introduction of Habermas' theory, this paper analyses the theoretical system of Normative Pragmatics. First, the paper analyses the Theory of Communicative Action, the foundation of Normative Pragmatics. Then, from the Theory of Communicative Action, it explores the formation of Normative emphasizing reflexive thinking as the method.To sum up, Habermas' Normative Pragmatics, as one of the critical patterns of modern crisis, seeks mutual communicational space among subjects minimally to liberate their spiritual world. Being an important discourse pattren, it can expand the scope of classroom discourse to a maximum degree to the discourse-centered teaching pattern. Thus, a maximum consensus is achieved among the subjects and ensures them to find the significance of their life.