呼喚民主公民？高職教科書中公民養成內涵之探究 Calling for Democratic Citizens? An Exploration of Citizenship Cultivation Embedded in Taiwanese Vocational High School Textbook

• Main Author: 陳素秋 Su-Chiu Chen
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Taiwan Association for the Sociology of Education 2018-12-01
• Series: 臺灣教育社會學研究
• Subjects: 職業高中; 公民教育; 教科書; 論述分析; 勞動者教育; vocational high schools; citizenship education; textbooks; discourse analysis; worker education
• Online Access: http://www.edubook.com.tw/OATw/detail.aspx?no=414770

高職教育過去強調提供初級技術人才，但伴隨政治民主化，過去10年來高職教育宗旨開始納入民主公民培育。本研究以論述分析檢視此公民培育理想如何落實課程文本中，並關注勞動者養成與公民養成之間的關聯。本研究發現，現行公民教育文本新增保障公民權利、去除政府威權、重視學生個體發展、關注處境不利群體等民主公民身分內涵，但本研究發現上述內容乃依循特定論述型構，亦即介紹公民權利，鮮少討論權利行使；強調政府功能運作良好，故無需公民參與治理；重視公民自我發展，但強調公民應成為理想勞動者；強調尊重弱勢，卻也將處境不利群體他者化。而勞動者養成論述，也緊密鑲嵌於上述論述型構。 In the past, Taiwan’s vocational high school education was oriented to the goal of providing primary-level technicians. However, with the development of democratization the ideal of cultivating democratic citizens has become a further aim of vocational education. Utilizing discourse analysis, this research explores how this civic ideal is embodied in textbooks, focusing on the relations between cultivating workers and cultivating citizens. The research finds that current textbooks add four new themes: protection of citizen rights, deregulation of government, promotion of student-centered curricula, and advancement of concern for disadvantaged groups. However, these new discourses are arranged in particular discursive formations: 1. introducing citizen’s rights, but neglecting how rights are practiced; 2. overvaluing government’s functions and then neglecting discussion of democratic governance; 3. prescribing new obligations to become ideal workers for employers; 4. cultivating citizens to respect disadvantaged groups, but also fostering citizens to see them as other. The worker education discourses are closely embedded in these discursive formations.