Full Description
This book introduces four influential Chinese educators of the later 20th century whose writings had enormous influence on many dimensions of the educational reforms which underly China's remarkable transformation into a global superpower. None of them published in English and only Li Bingde, a leader in educational experimentation, had studied abroad. Huang Ji at Beijing Normal University was an educational philosopher who interpreted Chinese classical texts as well as arts such as calligraphy and painting in ways that brought new life to Chinese pedagogy. Lu Jie at Nanjing Normal University and Wang Fengxian at Northeast Normal University were leaders in developing a whole new approach to moral education that highlighted subjectivity and self awakening as China became a socialist market economy.
Contents
Introduction: Insights from Pioneering Chinese Educators
Edited by Ruth Hayhoe, Jun Li and Julia Pan
PART 1: Professor Li Bingde's Articles
1 On the So-called Adaptation of Education to Meet Social Needs
Li Bingde
2 Making Experimental Research on Chinese Language Teaching More Scientific
Li Bingde
3 A Scientific Attitude towards Educational Experiments
Li Bingde
4 On Essential Elements of Teaching and Their Interrelationships
Li Bingde
5 A Brief Overview of Sino-Western Exchange: Past and Present
Li Bingde
PART 2: Professor Lu Jie's Articles
6 Education: A Practical Activity for Constructing the Human Self
Lu Jie
7 Moral Education in China's Social Transition: Where Is the Future?
Lu Jie
8 Life-Based Moral Education Curriculum: On the Changes in China's Moral Education Curriculum in Primary Schools
Lu Jie
9 Cultivation of Knowledge Persons: An Educational Belief Worthy of Critical Reflection
Lu Jie
10 An Answer to Globalization: Enhancing Cultural Awareness
Lu Jie
PART 3: Professor Wang Fengxian's Articles
11 Marx's Theory of Alienation and All-round Human Development
Wang Fengxian
12 Exploration on Education Modernization and Cross-cultural Exchange Intersections in China
Wang Fengxian
13 Critical Reflections on the Hot Issue of "Education Industrialization" in China
Wang Fengxian
PART 4: Professor Huang Ji's Articles
14 An Overview of Chinese Aesthetics and Aesthetic Education
Huang Ji
15 Historical Trajectory and Characteristics of Educational Philosophy in Ancient China
Huang Ji
16 Human Subjectivity and Education
Huang Ji
17 Some Reflections on Educational Reform
Huang Ji
Index
