高等教育场域中优绩主义的实践失当与理性回归OACHSSCD

Effective practice must satisfy both the criterion of truth and the criterion of value.The practical effectiveness of meritocracy in higher education depends on the legitimacy of its application of these criteria.Current meritocratic practices in higher education overstep both criteria,leading to significant issues:elite selection mechanisms deviate from the essence of education,individual development is reduced to instrumental rationality,and symbolic violence and social atomization crises emerge.Essentially,evaluation systems reduce multifaceted educational values to narrow performance metrics.Technocratic governance lends a scientific veneer to this quantification obsession,and educational actors strategic compliance to sustain their sense of meaning reinforces a narrow symbol of"merit".Breaking this cycle requires reconstructing the higher education evaluation system by implementing classified evaluation and value-added assessment;enhancing the transparency,visibility,and diversity of technological governance to safeguard the central role of humans within it;and guiding internal actors to deconstruct narrow notions of success,shifting from symbolic existence to meaningful being.