Education Between Speech and Writing: Crossing the Boundaries of DAO and Deconstruction

ISBN-13: 9781138846388 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 164 str.

Ruyu Hung

Opis

This is the first book to explore how graphocentrism - prioritising writing over speech and eyes over ears - affects Chinese education and culture. Contemporary educational practices in China often follow the dominant Western model of phonocentrism, but Ruyu Hung demonstrates that each perspective interacts and counteracts with each other, creating a dialogue between Eastern and Western thought. Chapters explore the consonances and dissonances between the two, problematizing the educational practices of Chinese tradition and proposing a dialectical thinking of post-graphocentrism, based on the concepts of Dao and deconstruction. The book projects new possibilities for philosophy of education and offers innovative educational ideas which take into consideration the uniqueness of Chinese character writing.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements  Prologue: Seeing is Believing?  1. Thinking Education Through the Spoken and the Written Word  2. Chinese Graphocentrism: A Search through Texts  3. Graphocentric Education: The Cultivation of the Writing Subject  4. The Paradox of Graphocentrism: Dao-Logocentrism  5. Post-Graphocentrism: dao-deconstruction  6. Post-Graphocentric Education  Epilogue: Playing the Word  References

O autorze

Ruyu Hung is Professor of Education of Philosophy at National Chiayi University, Taiwan.