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Modern Education And Fear Manufacture

Posted on:2014-09-02Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:L ZhangFull Text:PDF
GTID:1267330401969684Subject:Education
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Fear is a kind of emotion with feelings of tension and uncertainty which is produced when people feel dangerous. Although it has lots of negative consequences, it has some positive significance in some special cases, such as protecting people from dangers, propelling people to promote their abilities of understanding the world, incubating social emotions, breeding the quality of bravery and perfecting the life of human beings. People can fear due to they can realize their vulnerability and limitation in the abstract. Man is a culture animal, which means that the object and degree of the fear can be influenced by social culture. Besides, the object and degree of fear will also be changed in one’s life because of man’s non-specific. Education is an important way for people to get through fear. Through education, people can eliminate unreasonable fear, face up to the fear that can’t be removed and learn reasonable fear. To a certain extent, modern education could help human eliminating some kinds of old fear, especially the fear caused by lacking of understanding.However, Modern education creates some new unreasonable fear while eliminating some kinds of old fear, which makes the whole education becoming Education in Fear. Although these new fear are not different from those old ones in formal, they are totally different in the object. In the field of modern education, future fear, competition fear, study fear and norm fear are four major fears. They can also be called school fear overall considering the relationship between them. Modern education makes fear through four mechanisms, that is overstating cruel of future, building atmosphere of morbid competition, imposing unbearable academic burden, and changing school life into prison-like. Modern education makes a variety of man-made and unreasonable fear, which will cause serious consequences, such as, forming mentality of fear, facilitating psychological tendency of obeying authority, and manufacturing indifference and the generation of selfish.Deeply, this problem of modern education is caused by the uncertainty of modern society. From Stable Modernity to Flow Modernity, moderns can’t be escape from uncertainty. By pursuing to certainty in a wrong way, they made lots of man-made fear. The problem of fear-made modern education is a result of this logic. Firstly, Individualization makes moderns worry about Identities more than ever before, and victories of Labor and Consumer Society make them trying to hold money to obtain Identities, which lead to the field of education filling with cruel competitions, and school to be a battle for Identities. Secondly, New Etiquette in Risk Society makes moderns pay to much attention to personal safety. Thus, school descends to be prison-like in the name of students’ personal safety. Finally, in this uncertain time, the rationality of school is under threat, so it needs recovering its charm by making fear.It is necessary for education to restore calm. As binding up with this uncertain time, this process will be difficult. But it has inner powers from modern education and modern people. To restore calm, modern education must be reformed. Firstly, it must pursue certainty from both inner and outer world instead of outside world only because depending on either of these will lead to serious consequences. Secondly, it must replace eliminate fear with transcend fear. Because in this uncertain times, moderns should not only eliminate unreasonable fear, but also learn how to fear reasonable and face up to the fear which can’t be removed. Specifically, modern education needs to rebuild the relationship between moderns, guide moderns from holding money to pursuing wisdom and virtue, and to develop moderns right Risk Consciousness.
Keywords/Search Tags:Education, Modern education, Fear, Fear making, uncertain time
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