In the current world of education, “alienation” has become common in teacherstudent relationship in school. By reflecting on modern educational theory, we find that modern teacherstudent relationship is being reconstructed by postmodern educational ideology and revised by subjectivity educational theory. However, we hold a deep doubt about the possibility to highlight their theoretical values because of the limitation of theoretical hypotheses and lack of practical operation of the two theories. In terms of reflection on and criticism of educational modernity, in order to get rid of the dilemma of the alienated teacherstudent relationship, we must surpass educational modernity by enriching and completing the implication of postmodern educational ideology and developing a teacherstudent community of constructive postmodern sense and form.

teacherstudent relationship; education; modernity; postmodernity; intersubjectivity; alienation; teacherstudent community