Abstract: “Education Modernization” is one of the most important academic products and tool in modern China educational research; moreover, it’s a unique academic issue of China. Existing researches from discursive or ideology perspective were emerged in western modernization theory and other Chinese modernization research. However, there is no corresponding research in Chinese education modernization. The combination of foucauldian discourse research and sociology of knowledge, can provide a possible approach to analyze “Education Modernization” in China. Under this approach, an interpretation paradigm of Education Modernization was put forward.

Key words: Education Modernization, Discourse Research, Sociology of Knowledge, methodology；