“力学史和方法论”对“力学通识教育”的提升作用

The Elevation Effect of "History and Methodology of Mechanics" on "General Education in Mechanics"

  • 摘要: 为了剖析“力学通识教育”受“力学史和方法论”的助力作用,本文第1节用曹雪芹的词句“好风凭借力,送我上青云”做比方,因感到不够妥当,进而想到李白的诗句“大鹏一日同风起,扶摇直上九万里”,于是确定:把力学通识教育”喻为“大鹏”,把“力学史和方法论”喻为“劲风”。整篇用后续的5节篇幅,按这对比喻展开阐述:第2节回顾了一般的“通识教育”的“群鹏”的演化简史,英文的“Liberal Education”和“General Education”这2个概念,转换到中文圈,变“成了自由教育”、“博雅教育”、“广义教育”和“通识教育”共4个概念;第3节剖析了作为一般“通识教育”的“群鹏”三个本质特征,即知识、能力和素质3个方面,也可以称为通识教育的3个基本要点;第4节论述了力学通识教育是群鹏之一的原因;第5节阐述了力学史与方法论是力学通识教育大鹏借助高翔的劲风;第6节指出目前力学大鹏却在低飞徘徊的现象,揭示了欲突破这种状态而展翅翱翔的对策,就是要好好地依靠力学史与方法论这股劲风。第7节作为结语,呼吁大家把力学史与方法论的运用由自发状态上升为自觉境界,同时把关注的视野放得宽一些。

     

    Abstract: In order to analyze the role of the history and the methodology of mechanics for the general education of mechanics, section 1 uses Cao Xueqin’s phrase, “A favorable wind lends me power to soar into the blue sky," as an analogy but finds it inadequate. Subsequently, the author thought: Li Bai’s verse, “One day the great roc soars with the wind, it straight ascending up to ninety thousand miles". Thus, it is established: “General Education of the Mechanics" is likened to the “Great roc.", but “History of Mechanics and Methodology" is metaphorized as the “Mighty Wind”. The entire paper, spanning the subsequent five sections, elaborates on this pair of metaphors:Section 2 reviews the brief evolutionary history of general “liberal education" as a “flock of great rocs." The two English concepts, Liberal Education and General Education, have been translated into four distinct terms in the Chinese context: Education of Free Choice, Broad and Refined Education, Broadly Defined Education and General Cognitive Education. Section 3 analyzes the three essential characteristics of General Education as a “flock of great rocs," namely knowledge, ability, and quality, which can also be referred to as the three fundamental aspects of liberal education.Section 4 discusses why “General Education of the Mechanics" is one of the rocs in this flock. Section 5 elaborates on how “history and methodology of mechanics" serves as the mighty wind that enables the mechanics roc to soar high. Section 6 points out the current phenomenon of the mechanics roc hovering at a low altitude and reveals strategies to break through this state, allowing it to spread its wings and soar. This entails effectively harnessing the “history and methodology of mechanics" as the powerful wind. Section 7, as the conclusion, calls on everyone to raise the application of history and methodology of mechanics from spontaneous state to conscious realm, and to broaden the focus of attention.

     

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