| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 教育研究所 === 90 === From Jean-François Lyotard’s postmodern knowledge discourse to analyze the knowledge condition of higher education in Taiwan
Abstract
This study aims at interpreting Jean-François Lyotard’s postmodern knowledge and basing his analysis towards postmodern higher education gives some proper suggestion for higher education in Taiwan. Analytically, the goals of this study are as follow:
1.Depending on the historical context of western higher education development to observe the changing process of the knowledge position.
2.To analyze Lyotard’s postmodern knowledge discourse.
3.To discuss Lyotard’s postmodern knowledge discourse.
4.Based on Lyotard’s perspective on postmodern knowledge, to analyze the policy and direction of higher education in Taiwan.
5.According to the analysis. To provide proper points of view for higher education in Taiwan.
After careful interpretation of Lyotard’s discourse on postmodern knowledge, the an thou of knowledge condition for higher education in Taiwan, the following conclusion are made:
1.Lyotard thinks that the set of meta-narrative built since the age of Enlightenment facing the crisis of disintegration. The crisis of meta-narrative leads the function of higher education towards the development of long life education.
2.Based on the pragmatics, Lyotard thinks that the crisis of meta-narrative is the main reason to cause various kinds of language games, and the tendency of interdisciplinary in higher education is a “move” of language game.
3.The delegitimation of knowledge in the postmodern leads the knowledge research in higher education towards diversification. But the emphasis on the performativity in postmodern society also causes higher education tend to develop some practical knowledge.
4.The performativity and power are double criterions of knowledge in the postmodern, and it causes higher education put emphasis on developing students’ professional competence on learning aspect and scientific knowledge on research aspect.
5.The tendency of knowledge commercialization and performativity causes higher education some serious transformations on the teaching and learning aspect.
Based on the above finding, the following recommendations are proposed for betterment of theoretical and practical aspects for higher education in Taiwan:
1.To built some unique value of higher education under the tendency of massification and marketization.
2.To distinguish different quality and function of higher education.
3.To avoid the organization and function of higher education inactivity.
4.To emphasize the teaching responsibility of teacher and interactive relationship between teacher and student in higher education.
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