Discipline Building: A Probe With Meta-Perspective

The dissertation is aimed to study building pedagogy of higher education with perspective of meta-science and meta-discipline. The main idea is as follows: the present science has transformed or is transforming, and the transformation of science also transforms the framework of the discipline. The transformation of discipline framework has set up a new direction, aim and strategy for building the pedagogy of higher education.To build a discipline is to make a discipline more mature, but knowledge about "what is mature discipline like" and "what is criterion for mature discipline" is related with the discipline framework. Discipline framework, which is prototype framework shared by all disciplines and is hidden behind them, is guiding principle for building every discipline. Discipline framework also exists in minds, and we always build a discipline according to the framework in our minds.Framework is directly related with, or controlled by Knowledge form and Science form. Science has different forms in different periods. The transformation of science changes discipline framework rightly, and there are different discipline frameworks under different science forms. So discipline framework is not invariable, but is variable.Nowadays, science has transformed or is transforming, the ontology, theory of knowledge and methodology of science has experienced or are experiencing a "revolution", and the transformation brought on a series of change in discipline framework: from "subjective", "unique" to "relative", "systematic" researching object; from "single", "unique" to "multiple" researching method; from "line-shaped", "single-direction" to " ball-shaped", "multi-direction" knowledge system.The change of discipline framework also changes aim and direction of the building of every discipline. To build the pedagogy of higher education, a young discipline, we not only learn from experience of the building of classic disciplines, but also should consider the change of discipline framework brought by the transformation of science. According to new discipline framework, we should consider aim and direction of the building of the pedagogy of higher education again, should recognize researching objective, method and knowledge system of the pedagogy of higher education again, should construct new-typed discipline organization and culture.