台灣社區大學的發展與公民社會建構

The Development of Taiwan Community Universities and the Formation of Civil Society

沈宗瑞(Tzong-Ruey Shen) ； 葛皇濱(Huan-Bing Geh)

《教育與社會研究》 16期 (2008/12) Pp. 33-61

https://doi.org/10.6429/FES.200812.0033

摘要

本文將台灣社區大學視為公民社會實踐的場域，並提出國家與社會三種傳統的政治社會理論作為分析架構，探討台灣的國家與社會所發展出的新關係。 本文具體地針對國家對社區大學發展的諸種角色與作為，包括法制化、議題的設定、經費來源、教育體制改革與評鑑等議題，討論了它與社區大學的互動實況；同時也從一個社區大學實際的工作者角度，分別探討社區大學與公部門、地方社區場域如何進行各種公民實踐活動；此外，也從課程的結構、社大工作人員的生活世界分析台灣獨特的「公民社會」狀態。 十年以來，社區大學內部的三個社群－工作幹部、教師與學員從課堂與社區的共學中，已在台灣社會建構了一個公民社會的小雛型；而社大與社區及政府的三邊關係中也逐漸在各地社大發展出不同互動模式。本文的分析中發現，社區大學仍存在著永續經營的危機，而社大與國家的關係也仍處於某種依存與緊張的微妙狀態氛圍之下，這具體而微地體現了台灣NGO組織的類似情境。

關鍵字

社區大學 ； 國家與社會 ； 公民社會

並列摘要

This thesis is to practice a civil society through the operation of community universities in Taiwan, analyzing state and society on the basis of three traditional socio-political theories, and to study the new relationship of Taiwan state and society.
This thesis discusses the actual interaction of state and community universities by pointing out state's roles and conducting toward community universities and, such as institutionalization, setting issues, financial resources, reforming educational system, and assessment. There is also research on how community universities cooperate with governmental departments and local communities to accomplish various civil activities. In addition, Taiwan's uniqueness of ”civil society” is also analyzed through the structure of curriculum and the life of the workers of community universities.
For ten years, the three groups of community universities-cadre members, teachers, and students have structured a miniature of civic society in Taiwan through their interactions with communities and the curriculum. Besides, community universities, communities, and government have developed various forms of interactions in a trilateral relationship. It can be found that there are crisis for community universities to carry on sustainably, and it can be also seen that the relationship between state and community universities is both tense and inter-dependent, which embodies similarly the situations of NGO in Taiwan.

並列關鍵字

community university ； state and society ； civil society

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