The Utilitarian Education Thought And Its Practice In American Higher Education

In recent years, with the reform of higher education in the practice of in-depth, thought to seek the guidance of the increasing demand. Higher Thought gradually become the focus of research. American higher education as the world powers, study and learn from the American experience in the development of higher education plays an important role in the reform of Higher Education and Development (s). Although the current domestic research information on American higher education is already very rich, but most of the research focused on the practical aspects of American higher education curriculum, instruction and assessment. Utilitarian education has always attached importance by scholars not been. The utilitarian education is precisely the important ideological basis of American higher education success. Based on this, the paper will "utilitarian education" as the research object, trying to straighten out its relations with the United States the development of countless Higher Education.American higher education in the utilitarian education is the product of heredity and environment. Medieval universities dynasties, and the formation of utilitarian education will begin along with the teaching practice. One of the main reasons for the existence of medieval universities is to provide secular social services. On the other hand, utilitarian education in American higher education and embryonic development happens in American society overall to usher in a period of change, to accelerate the process of industrial revolution between universities and society to build economic bridges, as the Enlightenment American Higher Education Reform traditional Education provides mental preparation, development of science and technology for the practice of utilitarian education provides the basis for internal development. The most critical is the US Higher utilitarian education is the mainstream values of American society in the pursuit of utilitarian, practical national identity the same strain.Utilitarian education is not purely utilitarian philosophy Educational Thought philosophical sense, is also not a purely "utilitarian" as its pursuit of value. Connotation utilitarian education is mainly reflected in:First, from the perspective of the mission of the University, stressed the university social services; angle Second, personnel training, emphasizing the importance of vocational education; Third, the angle of the curriculum, emphasizing curriculum to meet market demand; Fourth academic point of view, emphasizing the commercialization of research results. Utilitarian education focus on contact between the university and society. American Higher Education instrumentalism and pragmatism respective educational ideas are to some extent and content coincide utilitarian education, reference herein professor Liu domestic deposit and some people view that covers the utilitarian education tool educational Thought and pragmatism educational Thoughts.Utilitarian education of higher education in the United States, to a certain extent similar to the political theory Brubeck said the philosophy of higher education in American higher education, leaving higher education in the United States of macro, meso and micro levels each its value mark for the transformation and development of higher education in the United States provides an ideological foundation. Moment, higher education utilitarian, materialistic increasingly serious, some scholars Higher Education utilitarian contact utilitarian education together, think there is utilitarian education is higher intrinsic values of desertion. In fact, utilitarian education is itself a product of Higher Education, is not the logic of the development of higher education distortion. For utilitarian education, we do not have to because the "utilitarian" word will be with the pursuit of value, the pursuit of truth in opposition to the values of higher education, to the utilitarian education paste negative label. Utilitarian education is not the root cause of the higher education sector utilitarianism in vogue, and educators in the practice of utilitarian education process, Alienation of utilitarian education, is the pursuit of higher education over the utilitarian, materialistic the main reason.Thinking above theory and practice-based thesis first chapter on social background and theoretical foundation of American Higher Education Thoughts utilitarian sort. The second chapter of the specific content of American Higher Education Thoughts utilitarian analysis to summarize and clarify the characteristics Utilitarian Education Thought. The third chapter from the perspective of individual cases, some of the American higher education practices have discussed the characteristics of utilitarian thought. The fourth chapter of American Higher Education from the overall perspective, the impact of utilitarian education produced in the United States for higher education are discussed. The fifth chapter is mainly on US Higher utilitarian education evaluation and reflection.