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What does the Confucian heritage mean to modern East Asian education today? Is it invalid and outdated, or an irreplaceable cultural resource for an alternative approach to education? And to what extent can we recover the humanistic elements of the Confucian tradition of education for use in world education?
Written from a comparative perspective, this book attempts to collectively explore these pivotal questions in search of future directions in education. In East Asian countries like China, Japan, Korea and Taiwan, Confucianism as a philosophy of learning is still deeply embedded in the ways people think of and practice education in their everyday life, even if their official language puts on the Western scientific mode. It discusses how Confucian concepts including rite, rote-learning and conformity to authority can be differently understood for the post-liberal and post-metaphysical culture of education today. The contributors seek to make sense of East Asian experiences of modern education, and to find a way to make Confucian philosophy of education compatible with the Western idea of liberal education.
This book was originally published as a special issue of Educational Philosophy and Theory.
Contents
Introduction: The Confucian Concept of Learning Revisited for East Asian Humanistic Pedagogies 1. Ethics of Learning and Self-knowledge: Two cases in the Socratic and Confucian teachings 2. Humanistic Traditions, East and West: Convergence and divergence 3. ''The Source of Learning is Thought'' Reading the Chin-ssu lu with a ''Western Eye'' 4. A Theory of Learning in Confucian Perspective 5. The Corporeality of Learning: Confucian Education in Early Modern Japan 6. Lixue, the Lost Art: Confucianism as a form of cultivation of mind 7. A Critique of Confucian Learning: On Learners and Knowledge 8. Two Concerns of the Confucian Learner 9. Modern Versus Tradition: Are there two different approaches to reading of the Confucian classics?
