Cultivation of Self in East Asian Philosophy of Education

ISBN-13: 9780367359348 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 144 str.

Ruyu Hung

Opis

This book provides exciting and significant inquiries into the cultivation of self in East Asian philosophy of education. The chapters in this book were originally published in the Educational Philosophy and Theory journal.

Spis treści

Introduction: Cultivation of self in East Asian philosophy of education  1. Confucianism and critical rationalism: Friends or foes?  2. Is filial piety a virtue? A reading of the Xiao Jing (Classic of Filial Piety) from the perspective of ideology critique  3. ‘Keep off the lawn; grass has a life too!’: Re-invoking a Daoist ecological sensibility for moral education in China’s primary schools  4. The illusion of teaching and learning: Zhuangzi, Wittgenstein, and the groundlessness of language  5. Donghak (Eastern Learning), Self-cultivation, and Social Transformation: Towards diverse curriculum discourses on equity and justice  6. Acting without regarding: Daoist self-cultivation as education for non-dichotomous thinking  7. The purpose of the MBA degree: The opportunity for a Confucian MBA to overcome neoliberalism  8. Agency and social capital in Chinese international doctoral students’ conversion to Christianity  9. Continue the dialogue – symposium of cultivation of self in East Asian philosophy of education  10. Confucius’s view of learning  11. Self-cultivation and the legitimation of power: Governing China through education  12. Integrative ethical education: Narvaez’s project and Xunzi’s insight  13. Confucius’ Junzi: The conceptions of self in Confucian

O autorze

Ruyu Hung is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy of Education at the National Chiayi University, Taiwan. She has been awarded a Research Fellowship of Japan-Taiwan Exchange Association and a Fulbright Senior Researcher Scholarship. Her research interests include philosophy of education, ecological philosophy, phenomenology, deconstruction, and Daoism. In recent years, she has extended her research into comparative and intercultural philosophies of education. She is the author of Education between speech and writing: Crossing the boundaries of Dao and deconstruction (2017); and she is the Regional Editor of the Educational Philosophy and Theory journal.