Abstract:

The one-dimensional thinking in educational research is the extreme embodiment of intellectual thinking,personal,absolute,one-sided and non-critical thinking, which exists in analyzing educational phenomena and solving educational problems. This kind of one-dimensional thinking manifested as the mutual transgression of theory-thinking and engineering-thinking, the contradiction between positive thinking and negative thinking, the opposition between“the content-centered thinking”led by value and“the method-centered thinking”led by technology,the paranoia of daily thinking and non-daily thinking. The one-dimensional thinking in educational research has existed for a long time, which has affected the authenticity, reliability and effectiveness of education research. To improve the quality of educational research, we must break through the shackles of one-dimensional thinking. And it is necessary to awaken dialectical thinking and weaken the absoluteness of thinking, to rationally examine one’s own thinking logic and get out of the limitation of subjectivism, to break through the clamping of closed thinking and expand the horizon of thinking in the practice of actively approaching, so as to expand the horizon of thinking.

Key words: education research, education problem, intellectual thinking, one-dimensional thinking, dialectical thinking