How Do the Elements“ with Price” and“ without Price” Configure EachOther in Education?: An Analysis Triggered by“ the Zelizer Perspective”(PDF)
《南京师大学报》(社会科学版)[ISSN:1006-6977/CN:61-1281/TN]
- Issue:
- 2019年05期
- Page:
- 22-31
- Research Field:
- 教育学研究
- Publishing date:
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- Title:
- How Do the Elements“ with Price” and“ without Price” Configure EachOther in Education?: An Analysis Triggered by“ the Zelizer Perspective”
- Author(s):
- MA Weina
- Jiangsu Academy of Educational Sciences (Nanjing 210013)
- Keywords:
- the Zelizer Perspective; with price and without price; entangled mutual configuration
- PACS:
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- DOI:
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- Abstract:
- In the mutual configuration between economic factors and non-economic factors, being valuable ineconomic terms and being priceless in emotional terms are not mutually exclusive: one does not take priorityover the other, nor is one clearly separated from the other. That is to say, the two notions are closely tied toeach other, penetrate into each other, continuously influence each other, and present profound changes. Theresearch of“ the Zelizer Perspective” on the mutual configuration between the factors whose value can bemeasured by price (i.e. factors“ with price”) and those whose value cannot be measured by price (i.e. factors“without price”) in contemporary education enables the present paper to focus on the following three issues.To families, children not only present priceless emotional attachment, but also imply future economic value: itis the“ economic person in the form of motherhood” that makes possible the mutual configuration between thetwo types of factors mentioned above. To schools, students are not only emotionally“ priceless” and of somepractical value, as captured by the saying“ Today we feel proud of our school”, but also have emotional andeconomic values which can be measured by“ prices” in future, as captured by the saying“ Tomorrow the schoolwill be proud of me”: here“, utility-based choices” can serve as the basis for the mutual configuration betweenthe two types of factors.When it comes to the relationship between knowledge and extracurricular tutoring, thecare provided by the family that cannot be measured by“ prices” is seamlessly transferred to the dependenceon the tutoring platform believed to supply useful knowledge, where the market enables the knowledge tobe measured by generally accepted prices: here, the monetary symbols can serve as the basis for the mutualconfiguration between the two types of factors at issue.
Last Update: 2019-09-25