华东师范大学学报(教育科学版) ›› 2026, Vol. 44 ›› Issue (3): 1-14.doi: 10.16382/j.cnki.1000-5560.2026.03.001

• 人工智能时代的教育转型 •    

人工智能时代教育研究的死亡与重生:问题与前景

赵勇, 尼尔·金斯顿, 里克·金斯伯格   

  1. 美国堪萨斯大学教育与人文科学学院,美国堪萨斯州劳伦斯 66045
  • 出版日期:2026-03-01 发布日期:2026-03-02

The Death and Rebirth of Educational Research in the Age of AI: Problems and Promises

Zhao Yong, Neal Kingston, Rick Ginsberg   

  1. School of Education and Human Sciences, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045, USA
  • Online:2026-03-01 Published:2026-03-02

摘要:

在生成式人工智能迅速发展的背景下,教育研究正面临深刻的认识论与方法论危机。传统教育研究长期受到若干结构性问题困扰,包括同行评审质量不稳、量化偏见及其带来的虚假精确性、定量与定性范式之争、跨情境过度推论、忽视学习者个体差异、以典型性假设主导研究想象,以及对教育成果的狭隘定义,等等。这些问题限制了教育研究的解释力、相关性与实际影响力。人工智能的出现不仅加剧了既有挑战,也带来了新的复杂性:AI技术迭代速度远超研究周期,使教育干预难以保持稳定;AI改变了“什么值得学习”的根本问题;人机协作学习情境的兴起要求研究者采用复杂性理论和分布式认知视角;教育研究必须面对监控、偏见与不平等等社会技术议题。同时,AI正在重塑文献综述、研究设计和知识生产本身,促使教育研究从关注因果链转向理解动态系统,从以人为中心的解释转向人机共生的认识论。本研究指出,教育研究需要从现有范式的局限中走出,发展更具适应性、参与性、多元性和面向未来的方法论框架,实现教育研究的“重生”。唯有如此,教育研究才能在AI时代保持其科学性、伦理性与社会价值。

关键词: 人工智能, 教育研究, 分布式认知, 复杂性, 方法论多元主义, 范式转型

Abstract:

The rapid advancement of generative artificial intelligence is reshaping the foundations of educational research, exposing longstanding methodological and epistemological limitations while introducing new complexities. Traditional educational research has been constrained by inconsistent peer review, quantitative bias and false precision, paradigm wars between qualitative and quantitative traditions, overgeneralization across diverse contexts, neglect of learner individuality, a dominant focus on typical rather than possible educational futures, and an overly narrow definition of educational outcomes. These issues have limited the field’s relevance, validity, and impact. AI amplifies these challenges by accelerating the obsolescence of educational interventions, fundamentally altering the question of what knowledge is of most worth, and transforming learning environments through human–AI collaboration. These developments demand research approaches informed by complexity science, distributed cognition, and sociotechnical critique, particularly in relation to ethics, equity, algorithmic bias, and surveillance. At the same time, AI is transforming literature reviews, research design, and epistemic assumptions, shifting educational research from static causal models toward dynamic, co-evolving systems, and from human-centered interpretation to hybrid human–machine knowledge production. This paper argues that educational research must move beyond existing paradigmatic limitations and embrace more adaptive, participatory, pluralistic, and future-oriented methodologies. Such a transformation represents not merely an improvement but a rebirth of educational research necessary for maintaining scientific rigor, ethical responsibility, and societal relevance in the age of AI.

Key words: artificial intelligence, educational research, distributed cognition, complexity, methodological pluralism, paradigm shift