Abstract

This paper considers the sociology of education (SOE) as a modern human science. It suggests that the SOE is mired in a set of unreflexive, redemptive, Enlightment rationalities, and explores the messy relationships of the sociology with education that result from this. It is argues that the sociology of education has consistently failed to distance itself from the metaphysics, optimism and oppressions of modern schooling. That it has failed to call into question either the basic building blocks of schooling, or what we call education – pedagogy, curriculum and assessment – or the buildings themselves, the spaces of education. The paper concludes by asserting to need for critique rather than simply criticism as a starting point for thinking education differently.

摘要

本文将教育社会学（SOE）视为一门现代人类科学。它表明，国有企业陷入了一系列不自反，救赎，启蒙的理性之中，并探索了由此产生的社会学与教育的混乱关系。有人认为，教育社会学一直未能使自己脱离现代学校的形而上学，乐观主义和压迫。它没有使人们质疑学校的基本基础，或者我们所谓的教育（教学法，课程和评估），或者建筑物本身，教育空间。本文的结论是断言需要批判，而不仅仅是批判，以此作为不同思考教育的出发点。