Chinese Philosophy on Teaching and Learning: Xueji in the Twenty-First Century (SUNY series in Asian Studies Development)

Written Over Two And A Half Millennia Ago, The Xueji (on Teaching And Learning) Is One Of The Oldest And Most Comprehensive Works On Educational Philosophy And Teaching Methods As Well As A Consideration Of The Appropriate Roles Of Teachers And Students. The Xueji Was Included In The Liji (on Ritual), One Of The Five Classics That Became The Heart Of The Educational System During China's Imperial Era, And It Contains The Ritual Protocols Adopted By The Imperial Academy During The Han Dynasty. Chinese Philosophy On Teaching And Learning Provides A New Translation Of The Xueji Along With Essays Exploring This Work From Both Western And Chinese Perspectives. Contributors Examine The Roots Of Educational Thought In Classical Chinese Philosophy, Outline Similarities And Differences With Ideas Rooted In Classical Greek Thought, And Explore What The Xueji Can Offer Educators Today. -- From Back Cover. Introduction / Xu Di, Hunter Mcewan, And Yang Liuxin -- Section One: Translation -- On Teaching And Learning / Translated By Xu Di, Yan Liuxin, Hunter Mcewan, And Roger T. Ames -- Section Two: Essays -- On Teaching And Learning: Setting The Root In Confucian Education / Roger T. Ames -- The Teaching And Learning Principles Of Xueji In The Educational Practice Of The World Today / Xu Di -- Conduct, Method, And Care Of The Soul: A Comparison Of Pedagogies In Confucian And Western Thought / Hunter Mcewan -- The Ideas Of Educating And Learning In Confucian Thought / Chen Lai -- The Classical Image Of Confucian Teachers From The Analects And Xueji / Yang Liuxin And Yang Jan. Translated By Xu Di -- Confucius On The Concept Of Study: What Can We Learn From Him? / Qin Wei Hong -- Uniting Content Learning And Character Development With Self-reflection: Xueji's Implications For Reenvisioning Science Education / Mary Chang -- Pedagogies Of A President: Obama As A Twenty-first Century Junzi / Gay Garland Reed. Edited By Xu Di And Hunter Mcewan. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. In English With Some Texts And Notes In Chinese ; Translated From The Chinese. A translation and discussion of the central Confucian text on education, Xueji (On Teaching and Learning), influential in China from the Han dynasty to the present day. Written over two and a half millennia ago, the Xueji (On Teaching and Learning) is one of the oldest and most comprehensive works on educational philosophy and teaching methods, as well as a consideration of the appropriate roles of teachers and students. The Xueji was included in the Liji (On Ritual), one of the Five Classics that became the heart of the educational system during China’s imperial era, and it contains the ritual protocols adopted by the Imperial Academy during the Han dynasty. Chinese Philosophy on Teaching and Learning provides a new translation of the Xueji along with essays exploring this work from both Western and Chinese perspectives. Contributors examine the roots of educational thought in classical Chinese philosophy, outline similarities and differences with ideas rooted in classical Greek thought, and explore what the Xueji can offer educators today. Xu Di is Professor of Educational Foundations at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa and the author of A Comparison of the Educational Ideas and Practices of John Dewey and Mao Zedong in China. Hunter McEwan is Professor of Education at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa and the coeditor (with Kieran Egan) of Narrative in Teaching, Learning, and Research.