SUNY series in Asian Studies Development

Insights for American and Chinese Education in the Twenty-First Century

Xiufeng Liu, Wen Ma, Xiufeng Liu, Wen Ma

• Publisher: SUNY Press
• Year: 2018
• ISBN:
  9781438470030
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education General

This is one of the first books to explicitly address twenty-first-century education from a Confucian perspective. The contributors focus on why Confucianism is relevant to both American and Chinese education, how Confucian pedagogical principles can be applied to diverse sociocultural settings, and what the social and moral functions of a Confucianism-based education are. Prominent scholars explore a wide-range of research areas and methods, such as K–12 and college teaching; conceptual comparisons; case studies; and discourse analysis, that reflect the depth and breadth of Confucian ideas, and the divergent contexts in which Confucian principles and practices may be applied. This book not only enriches the research literature on Confucianism from an interdisciplinary perspective, but also offers fresh insights into Confucianism's continuing relevance and its compatibility with the latest research-based pedagogical practices.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Foreword
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction Why Is Confucianism Still Relevant in the Globalized Twenty-First Century?
• Part 1 Relevance of Confucianism to American and Chinese Education
• Part 2 Confucian Insights on Teaching and Learning
• Part 3 Confucianism and the Social and Moral Functions of Education
• List of Contributors
• Index
• Back Cover