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Article
The Lost Public Living Space: A Case Study of High School Student Union
Author(s)
WANG Li-li
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DOI:10.17265/2161-6248/2018.07.002
Affiliation(s)
Peking University, Beijing, China
ABSTRACT
This study focuses on the
nature of student union of the general high school. It combines John Dewey’s Democratic
Educational Theory with the public domain theory of
Hannah Arendt, thus forming the analysis framework of the thesis. In the
school, student union is a space for students to participate in public life, namely,
so-called “public life domain” or “public living space”. The research takes
qualitative research method as the main method. Taking 25 teachers and students
in M High School as object of study, the researcher conducted depth interviews
to learn about the interviewees’ school life and their opinions about the student
union. At the same time, a questionnaire was designed to collect the data of
high school students’ viewpoints on the student union. The study proves that
the students union of M High School, which is the public space of student
activities, is in a state of loss, and its indications are as follows: The student
union members’ autonomy is restricted and the students become
the right-hand men of teachers, school managers become “silent supervisor” on
students, the guidance of moral education department to students converts into “control”,
the student union neither serves for students nor represents the interests of
students, etc. Actually, that is an inevitable result of the discipline
education, which not only suppresses the development of individual
autonomy, but also obstructs the development of civic education.
KEYWORDS
student union, public living space, discipline education
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