Full Description
This Handbook provides a comprehensive look at the educational scope of life and values that characterize 21st-century Asia, as well as those values shared across cultures.
Some values are deeply resonant with the region's past while others reflect modernity and the new contexts in which Asian societies find themselves. Exploring these values of different types and the way they are constructed in Eastern and Western contexts, the contributors delve into the diversity of religious, moral and social education to promote greater understanding across cultures. While a range of values is identified here, there is no single set of values that can be applied to all people in all contexts. The time has long gone, even for single societies, when values can be imposed. Yet this Handbook emphasizes both the extent and importance of values to individuals and their societies—how they respond to these values may provide the key to better and more caring societies and to better lives for all.
Academics and teachers will find this Handbook resourceful because it raises important theoretical issues related to social values and their formation in distinctive contexts and provides novel insights into the diverse educational landscape in Asia. Policymakers and educators will also find this text helpful in learning to think about new ways to improve the quality of people's lives.
Contents
1. Searching for Peace and Harmony in a Troubled World: Life and Values Education in Asia
Introducing the Handbook
Section 1: Asian Contexts for Life and Values Education
2. Section Overview: Asia: Diverse contexts, multiple values
3. Contexts and orientations in life education
4. Virtues in education East and West: Virtue ethics, care ethics and Confucianism
5. A philosophy for children approach to cultivation of humility in Confucian contexts.
6. Responding to diversity: Values and education for a pluralistic state
Section 2: Religions and Religious Education
7. Section Overview: Religious diversity in multiple contexts
8. Conspicuous morality and hidden religiosity of the Confucian education revival in contemporary China
9. Daoist knowledge and 'perfect-person' education.
10. Rethinking Islamic education in Muslim modernist discourse
11. Marxism and religious education in China
Section 3: Life and Values Education in Greater China
12. Section Overview: Life and values education in Greater China
13. Life and Values Education in Mainland China
14. Life and Values Education in Taiwan China
15. Life and Values Education in Hong Kong
16. Career and Life Development in Greater China: A Hong Kong Case that Brings East and West Together
Section 4: Moral Education
17. Section Overview: Moral education, ethical principles and character
18. Christianity and moral education in Asia
19. The opportunities and challenges of Chinese ethical criticism and its implications for moral education
20. Integrating law-abiding awareness into moral education in Hong Kong
21. Cultivating moral values in Singapore's early childhood landscape: Who, what and how?
Section 5: Citizenship Education
22. Section Overview:Citizenship education, global citizenship education and multicultural education
23. Citizenship education discourse in Mainland Chinese discourse (2000-2020)
24. Preparing younger generations for a global future: Reorienting citizenship education in Pakistan.
25. Multicultural education in Indonesia - Reflections, concepts and constructions
26. Schooling and parenting citizenship: Parents' views on citizenship education in Kazakhstan
Section 6: Global Citizenship Education
27. Section Overview: Global citizenship education: Perspectives from Asia
28. Teaching beyond resilience: Pedagogies for critical global citizenship in the Philippines
29. What kind of global citizenship for Japanese higher education? Five ethical priorities
30. Global citizenship education in Western Asia: The Case of the Gulf Cooperation Council Nations
31.The contested terrain of global citizenship education in postcolonial India
32. Global citizenship education in Indonesia: A millennial volunteerism practice to affirm civic virtue
Section 7: Positive Education
33. Section Overview: Positive education in Asia
34. The influence of gratitude on students' interpersonal relationships, school resilience, and school well-being: Insights from Asian education contexts.
35. The impact of grit on Chinese students' achievement motivation, academic achievement, and subjective well-being
36. Positive futures: Locus-of-hope and positive education in Asia
37. Promoting character strengths in the early childhood setting: A scoping review
38. Character strength-based interventions in educational settings: Promoting Chinese students' mental well-being
Section 8: Character Education
39. Section Overview: Framing and reflections on character education in Asia
40. Virtues and the aim of Japanese character education
41. Character education in Taiwan -Transformation of character and moral education during Taiwan's transition from authoritarianism to democracy: Challenges and possibilities
42. Integrating citizenship education and character education through the framework of global citizenship : The South Korean case
Section 9: Spirituality Education
43. Section Overview: Spirituality education as engagement with life
44. Struggling to fit it all in: Sense of hope, life meaning and satisfaction of low-income single mothers of young children with special needs in New Zealand
45. Spiritual education, local wisdom, and wellbeing in Bhutan - What it means for young people
46. Spiritual education in Islam: An overview of the Ismaʿīli concept of Taʿlīm- The teaching of the infallible Imam
47. Implementing contemplative education for enhancing spirituality in Hong Kong schools
Section 10: Education for Sustainability in Asia
48. Section Overview: Environmental education for schools and beyond
49. Education for sustainability in Japan: Progress and way forward,
50. A case study on the implementation of problem and project-lased Learning (PBL) in Chinese environmental sustainable development curricula
51. An account of environmental education in Hong Kong - The role of non-formal and informal education
Section 11: Intercultural and multicultural education
52. Section Overview: Intercultural and multicultural education policies and praxis in selected Asian countries
53. Multicultural education in Japan: Historical legacies and ongoing challenges
54. Education beyond ethnic and religious divides: A critical analysis of education policies in Bangladeshi primary and secondary education
55. The past, present, and future of multicultural education in Thailand: An intersectionality perspective
56. Multicultural education for "ethnic minorities" or all students? Values and responses to diversity in Hong Kong
57. Unity in Diversity! The problematic of multicultural education in postcolonial India
Section 12: Peace Education
58. Section Overview: Peace education in Asia
59. "No More Wars": Peace education in Japan
60. Peace education in Korea
61. The idea and practice of peace education in China
62. Peace-loving and anti-violence in educational institutions: Character education through peace in Indonesia
