Confucian Perspectives on Learning and Self-Transformation -

Confucian Perspectives on Learning and Self-Transformation

International and Cross-Disciplinary Approaches
Buch | Hardcover
IX, 192 Seiten
2020 | 1st ed. 2020
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-40077-4 (ISBN)
149,79 inkl. MwSt

This book bridges the regions of East Asia and the West by offering a detailed and critical inquiry of educational concepts of the East Asian tradition. It provides educational thinkers and practitioners with alternative resources and perspectives for their educational thinking, to enrich their educational languages and to promote the recognition of educational thoughts from different cultures and traditions across a global world.

The key notions of Confucian and Neo-Confucian philosophy directly concern the ideals, processes and challenges of learning, education and self-transformation, which can be seen as the western equivalences of liberal education, including the German concept of Bildung. All the topics in the book are of fundamental interest across diverse cultures, giving a voice to a set of long-lasting and yet differentiated cultural traditions of learning and education, and thereby creating a common space for critical philosophical reflection of one's own educational tradition and practice. 

The book is especially timely, given that the vocabularies in educational discourse today have been dominantly "West centred" for a long time, even while the whole world has become more and more diverse across races, religions and cultures. It offers a great opportunity to philosophers of education for their cross-cultural understanding and self-understanding of educational ideas and practices on both personal and institutional levels.


Roland Reichenbach is professor of Foundation in Education at the University of Zurich in Switzerland. After teacher training he studied Clinical Psychology and Philosophical Ethics at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland. He was visiting scholar at Stanford University from 1992 to 1993 and at the Universite de Montreal from 1997 to 1999. Reichenbach held former professorships at the University of Munster, Germany (2002-2008), and the University of Basel, Switzerland (2008-2012). His main interests: Philosophy of Bildung, pedagogical ethics, civic education, and cultures of negotiation.Duck-Joo Kwak is a professor of Philosophy of Education at Seoul National University, Korea. Her recent research interests are in arts-education, philosophy of teacher education, and comparative philosophy of education on the humanistic traditions between the East and West. She also has written numerous articles on Stanley Cavell, especially his existential interpretation of later Wittgenstein, and civic and moral education in the post-liberal Confucian culture.

The Pleasure of Learning: An Introduction; Roland Reichenbach and Duck-Joo Kwak.- 1. Confucian Education as Life Education and its Modern Relevance; Chung Yi Cheng.- 2. Educational Relationship in the Analects of Confucius; Jeong-Gil Woo.- 3. Ritual, Virtue, and Education: An interpretation of Xunzi's philosophy of ritual; Morimichi Kato.- 4. Ogyû Sorai on the Content and Intent of Learning; Paulus Kaufmann.- 5. Enlightenment and Freedom in a Confucian Way  (wanwu yiti) - A Philosophical Concept and its Educational relevance; Niklaus Schefer.- 6. "When the Heart/Mind is lost..." The Metaphysics of Educational Theory; Roland Reichenbach.- 7. A Vietnamese Reading of the Master's Classic: Ph m Nguy n Du's Humble Comments on The Analects - An Example of Transformative Learning; Nguyen Nam.- 8. Self-Cultivation with Brushes: From the Perspective of Graphocentrism; Ruyu Hung.- 9.  Zhu Xi's Ethics of Reading;Duck-Joo Kwak.

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Contemporary Philosophies and Theories in Education
Zusatzinfo IX, 192 p. 15 illus.
Verlagsort Cham
Sprache englisch
Maße 155 x 235 mm
Gewicht 477 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Philosophie
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie der Neuzeit
Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Allgemeines / Lexika
Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Bildungstheorie
Schlagworte Confucian learning • Confucian philosophy of education • Cross-cultural understanding of education • East Asian concepts of learning • East Asian educational culture • Eastern and Western traditions in education • Educational theory and practice in East Asia • educational thinking • Humanism • Humanism in East Asia • self-transformation • Today's educational discourse
ISBN-10 3-030-40077-8 / 3030400778
ISBN-13 978-3-030-40077-4 / 9783030400774
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