Whole Person Education in East Asian Universities

Benedict S. B. Chan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Religion and Philosophy and Associate Director in the Centre for Applied Ethics at Hong Kong Baptist University. Victor C. M. Chan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Science and Associate Director (Service Learning) in the Centre for Teaching and Learning at the Hang Seng University of Hong Kong.

1 Introduction: East and West Perspectives on Whole Person Education

BENEDICT S. B. CHAN and CHI MING VICTOR CHAN

PART I

Confucian, Buddhist, and Chinese Perspectives

2 Reconsidering Confucian Understanding of Human Person and Its

Implications for Whole-Person Education

PAN CHIU LAI

3 Scholastic Universities, Monastic Schools and Confucian Colleges:

Historical Tensions in Whole Person Education and Prospective Solutions

PING CHEUNG LO

4 The Master’s Student Learning Outcomes and Assessment Methods: An

Alternative Perspective on Pedagogy

MARK J. BOONE

5 Confucian Ritual and Holistic Moral Education

TSZ WAN ANDREW HUNG

6 A Discussion on Master Hsing Yun's idea in University Whole Person

Education

KAI CHUNG POON

7 From Orthodox Chinese Culture to Taiwanization – An analysis of the

Chinese Culture Renaissance Committee to the General Association of

Chinese Culture in Taiwan

WILLIAM NG

PART II

Western Philosophy and Religion in Asia

8 The Theory of Moral Sentiments and Whole Person Education

ZHAOHUI HONG

9 Human Being as Both Being in Itself and Being in Relation: Thomas

Aquinas’s Metaphysical Vision of Whole Person Education

ZIQIANG BAI

10 Reflection on the Christian Philosophy of Science Education-

Case Study of the Creation-Evolution Controversy and Intelligent Design in

the Classroom

KAI MAN KWAN

11 Whole Person Education as a Multidimensional and Sialogical process: A

South Indian Example

DANIEL JEYARAJ

12 What Christian Gracious Moral Cultivation Can Contribute Distinctively to

Character and Moral Education in the Teaching of Whole Person Education in

Taiwan?

TSUNG I HWANG

PART III

Multidisciplinary and Interdisciplinary Approaches: Philosophy and Beyond

13 Big Data, Algorithms and Whole-Person Education—the Ethical Challenges

of Privacy Issues on using iBeacon Technology in Higher Education in Hong Kong

SIN YEE CALISTA LAM, MAN SING WONG and BENEDICT S. B. CHAN

14 Beyond Emotion Regulation: Revisiting the Role of Emotion Education in Whole

Person Development

MUK YAN WONG

15 Teaching Social Sciences as Phrónēsis: Prospect and Challenges

CHI MING VICTOR CHAN AND KAI CHUNG POON

16 Toward a "Holistic View" of Faculty Development : Practices in Japan, and the

Pragmatic Community of Inquiry for Education

YOSHIHIRO TANIGAWA