A Study On Habermas’ Theory Of Communicative Action And The Reconfiguration Of Teacher-student Interaction

In the class, it is common that interactive awareness of teachers is weak, the opportunityof students involved in the interaction is unequal. And these issues will be resolved by thenew curriculum. According to the new curriculum, we’re going to reflect and find a newstrategy to solve the problems. Jurgen Habermas is one of the German most importanteducational philosophers. The core of his thought—the theory of communicative action has anextensive influence in the world. communicative rationality, initiated dialogue, democraticconsultation, mutual respect and understanding among the subjects, which are the same withthe spirit of the interaction in the class, and influence the teacher-student interaction.The study using the methods of literature, observation, attempts to explore the usefulthinking of communicative action (here in after referred to as theory), which provides anenlightenment and effective strategy for the reconstruction of teacher-student interaction.The paper consists of six parts:The first part is introduction. This part introduces the origin of the study, the theory andpractical significance, finishing the research situation at home and abroad, then introduces themethodology of this thesis.The second part is a biography of Habermas. This part introduces Habermas’s life, writing,social background, theory background, so as to extract some significant persons and eventsfor him.The third part is the main content of the theory. Using the literature find on a life worldand its colonization, types of behavior, communicative rationality, the content of the dialogueand their theoretical position in the theory,then extract the essence of the theory for thefollowing analysis.The fourth part is to analysis on teacher-student interaction in the current Chinese juniorhigh school education. Through an in-depth observation on the classrooms of a junior highschool, we would extract and analyze the problems.The fifth part is discussing the enlightenment of the theory to the reconstruction of teacher-student interaction. Combined with the theory, we can know the interaction betweenteachers and students belong to a communication action, we should cultivate the rational basisof teacher-student interaction.The sixth part is on the reconstruction strategy of teacher-student interaction in a juniorhigh school education. Based on the theory and the interaction of teacher-student, I putforward some strategies to solve the problems,such as the interaction should return to the lifeworld, the single level of teacher-student relationship should change to inter subjectivity, andcomprehensively improve the effectiveness of classroom.