The Legitimacy Of The Educational Modernity In The Horizon Of Individual Rights

Educational modernity is one of the hottest research points in resent years, but the understanding of the concept varies from one another. The confusion of understanding towards the education modernization may result in the problems in the education practices, so it is essential to clarify what is educational modernity and study further on this issue. Based on the developing social reality and the changes of individuals’living environment, this thesis studies the modern education taking individual rights as a view. This thesis focuses on exploring whether there is legitimacy of educational modernity from the perspective of individual rights and aims at finding some effective and practical solutions to the main advent problems of it.This thesis employs the study methods of social political philosophy accompanied by article interview, historical method and comparative method to combine the theory and practice together. In the whole study process, case study, narrative of history of ideas and life experience method were also adopted.The main point of view of the thesis is that there is legitimacy of the educational modernity from the perspective of individual rights, but not all of the individuals who have rights can fulfill their rights. The solution to the problems is to implement individual rights thoroughly in both private field and public field to establish a possible way of being for the individual.The thesis suggests that individual rights are the original point of rethinking the educational modernity, and the fundamental feature of educational modernity is basing on individual rights. The legitimacy of educational modernity from the perspective of individual rights can be demonstrated from“the access of occurrence”and“the access of purpose”. When studied from“the access of occurrence”, the modern education breaks the hierarchical existing mode of education by means of replacing privilege by equal right, so legitimacy of modern education is recognized more widely. When surveyed from“the access of purpose”, the freeness of the modern education is not fully realized and the existing mode of modern education is full of popularization and loneliness, so the level of legitimacy should be improved.In the thesis, the main reason that individuals with rights can’t become practical rights performer lies in the abuse of power. To be specific, there are many causes such as the bondage of“identical”conception, compulsion of modern education order, lack of restrictive mechanism and the solidarity of educational boundary. The preconditions of solution are moral humanity ---- the supposition beyond the rights-based humanity, boundary awareness --- the new thought for educational theory, the paramountcy of dignity --- the system support of rights taking precedence over the power, integration of rights culture --- prerequisite for the construction of modern education system.The thesis shows that individual rights can be fulfilled in both private sphere and public sphere. Solving the problems about individual rights in private sphere should obey the rules in the private sphere, and in this situation the education power intervenes only when it is necessary. In public sphere, the problems of individual rights should be solved following the public rules including standing in others’shoes, understanding the feelings of the public and relying on the justified system.