6月1日，在文科大楼1414室，来自马里兰大学帕克分校的林静教授做了题为《中国教育与和谐社会的构建：看中产阶级的崛起》的讲座。我所李梅老师、陈曦老师等教师和部分硕士、博士生参加了此次讲座。
由于林静教授最近跟国内学者做中国高校扩展的研究，近期的项目为民办教学的教学改革方面。所以，讲座内容主要围绕“中国民办教育与中产阶级的崛起”展开。中国要建设和谐的社会，必须从文化、道德的角度来考虑，而不是仅仅是用经济的衡量和考虑。创造和发展新的文化，而不是越来越贪婪，无限制的消费，走向人与自然的和谐，真正的实现公民意识。这些都预示着中产阶级的崛起对我国发展的重要意义。讲座中，林静教授明确了中产阶级是一个怎样的概念，分析了中产阶级应该具备的条件，即财富、教育和职业。并且明确指出，在接下来的几十年时间里，中产阶级大部分会出现在亚洲国家。中国的GDP是世界第三位，人均收入三千美元。而中国高等教育扩招，总体人数已经超过很多国家，高校扩张将成为未来中产阶级产生的来源，大学生将来是中产阶级的直接来源。中产阶级的高速增长会影响很大，其来自不同的背景，没有形成共同的稳定的文化和价值观，由于大学是创造中间阶级的直接机器，我们应该更加关注大学扩招赋予了中产阶级什么样的性格特征。
在讲座结尾，我所的老师及学生与林静教授就“中产阶级与消费的关系”、“学校教育在现在这个动态的过程中起到的作用”、“是否是中产阶级的产生催生了民办院校”，以及“民办院校学生教育与老师教育观念”等问题进行交流。
（文 丁宁 ／ 图 郁嘉祺）
林静简介
Dr. Jing Lin is professor of international education policy at University of Maryland, College Park. She received her doctoral degree from University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) in 1990. Jing Lin has done extensive research on Chinese education, culture and society. In particular, she has systematically studied social changes in China and educational reforms undergoing in that country since 1978. She is the author of four books on Chinese education: The Red Guard’s Path to Violence (1991), Education in Post-Mao China (1993), The Opening of the Chinese Mind (1994), and Social Transformation and Private Education in China (1999). Her fifth book related to Chinese education, is entitled Portraits of 21st Century Chinese Universities: In the Move to Mass Higher Education, co-edited by Ruth Hayhoe, Jun Li, Jing Lin, and Qiang Zha. This book is based on her current research with a group of colleague on higher education expansion and the pursuit of world class excellence in China, focusing on policies, civil society and dialogues of culture in the process of change.
Jing Lin’s research and teaching also concentrate on peace education, environmental education, and spirituality education. She published Love, Peace and Wisdom in Education: Vision for Education in the 21st Century in 2006, and a book she co-edits, entitled Educators as Peace Makers: Transforming Education for Global Peace, appears in 2008. Jing Lin further co-edits two book series, one on Peace Education, and another on Transforming Education for the Future, both published by Information Age Publishing.
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