Abstract:

The crisis of modernity has its causes, which is manifested in education. The solution should focus and reflect on issues such as the right and wrong of subjectivity and subject education, the arrogation of instrumental rationality over value rationality, the return to value rationality from instrumental rationality, global absorption and adherence to localization and the question whether information technology reforms education by supporting or leading it. In order to eliminate the crisis of modernity, education modernization should hold the basic attitude of both compatibility and enhancement to classical modernity, and crack it with the idea and action of sustainable development. On the conceptual level, cultural philosophy should be used for reflection; on the institutional level, the governance system and governance capacity should be enhanced simultaneously; on the technical level, the value fusion between people and things should be improved. What is the sustainable way to promote the modernization of education? This paper discusses the solutions from three aspects: one region one pattern, one school one plan and one person one “niche”, which means integrating the concept of sustainable development into the regional index system of education modernization, leading schools to develop characteristics with the school modernization standards, and creating a colorful, warm and friendly “niche” for every teacher and student.

Key words: modernity, education in China, sustainable development, one region one pattern, one school one plan, one person one “niche”