The Confucian Concept of Learning: Revisited for East Asian Humanistic Pedagogies
About this ebook
Written from a comparative perspective, this book attempts to collectively explore these pivotal questions in search of future directions in education. In East Asian countries like China, Japan, Korea and Taiwan, Confucianism as a philosophy of learning is still deeply embedded in the ways people think of and practice education in their everyday life, even if their official language puts on the Western scientific mode. It discusses how Confucian concepts including rite, rote-learning and conformity to authority can be differently understood for the post-liberal and post-metaphysical culture of education today. The contributors seek to make sense of East Asian experiences of modern education, and to find a way to make Confucian philosophy of education compatible with the Western idea of liberal education.
This book was originally published as a special issue of Educational Philosophy and Theory.
About the author
Duck-Joo Kwak is Professor of Philosophy of Education at Seoul National University, Korea. She is the author of Education for Self-transformation: Essay as an Educational Practice (2011) and numerous articles on values education and teacher education.
Morimichi Kato is Professor of Philosophy of the Faculty of Human Sciences at Sophia University, Japan. He has a long-standing interest in the history of Platonism and humanism in the West, and has written extensively on Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Renaissance philosophers, Heidegger, Charles Taylor and Gianni Vattimo.
Ruyu Hung is Professor of Philosophy of Education at National Chiayi University, Taiwan. She is the author of Leaning Nature (2010), Education between Speech and Writing: Crossing the Boundaries of Dao and Deconstruction (2017) and many other philosophical and educational articles.
