The Fading away of “Asymmetry”: Electronic Media and the School’s Legitimacy Crisis
The “maturity gap” between generations is an objective fact that can only be narrowed through education. The asymmetry between generations is the anthropological base for education, and thus school education originated when this asymmetry enlarged. The print media protects this asymmetry, wherea...
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| description | The “maturity gap” between generations is an objective fact that can only
be narrowed through education. The asymmetry between generations
is the anthropological base for education, and thus school education
originated when this asymmetry enlarged. The print media protects
this asymmetry, whereas the electronic media decrease the asymmetry,
causing it to quickly fade away. However, when the asymmetry
between generations fades away, the legitimacy and attraction of school
education will be reduced, which is the primary reason that modern
schools encounter so many crises. In the age of electronic media, schools
must search for a new legitimate basis and transform into a “learning
community.” |
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| spelling | doaj.art-c8e380c21f28456da0c838ffaaabf9aa2023-02-16T09:47:21ZengEditorial Department of Contemporary Social SciencesContemporary Social Sciences2096-02122021-01-0110.19873/j.cnki.2096-0212.2021.01.007The Fading away of “Asymmetry”: Electronic Media and the School’s Legitimacy CrisisGao Desheng；Wang Di0East China Normal UniversityThe “maturity gap” between generations is an objective fact that can only be narrowed through education. The asymmetry between generations is the anthropological base for education, and thus school education originated when this asymmetry enlarged. The print media protects this asymmetry, whereas the electronic media decrease the asymmetry, causing it to quickly fade away. However, when the asymmetry between generations fades away, the legitimacy and attraction of school education will be reduced, which is the primary reason that modern schools encounter so many crises. In the age of electronic media, schools must search for a new legitimate basis and transform into a “learning community.”https://css.researchcommons.org/journal/vol2021/iss1/7maturity gapasymmetryprint mediaelectronic medialegitimacy crisis |
| spellingShingle | Gao Desheng；Wang Di The Fading away of “Asymmetry”: Electronic Media and the School’s Legitimacy Crisis Contemporary Social Sciences maturity gap asymmetry print media electronic media legitimacy crisis |
| title | The Fading away of “Asymmetry”: Electronic Media and the School’s Legitimacy Crisis |
| title_full | The Fading away of “Asymmetry”: Electronic Media and the School’s Legitimacy Crisis |
| title_fullStr | The Fading away of “Asymmetry”: Electronic Media and the School’s Legitimacy Crisis |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Fading away of “Asymmetry”: Electronic Media and the School’s Legitimacy Crisis |
| title_short | The Fading away of “Asymmetry”: Electronic Media and the School’s Legitimacy Crisis |
| title_sort | fading away of asymmetry electronic media and the school s legitimacy crisis |
| topic | maturity gap asymmetry print media electronic media legitimacy crisis |
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