Asia Pacific Education Review - About the Editor - Duck-Joo Kwak

Duck-Joo Kwak is Professor of Philosophy of Education in the Department of Education at Seoul National University and serves as the Editor-in-Chief of Asia Pacific Education Review from the beginning of 2024. Duck-Joo’s academic research started with a humanistic tradition of the West (hermeneutics and existentialism), but now attempts to cover comparative studies between the West and the East on their humanistic traditions on education (hermeneutics and Confucianism). While being a long-term member of Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia and serving as the President of Korean Philosophy of Education Society from 2020 to 2021, she is in a good position to see how a comparative look at the two traditions can be hugely beneficial in searching for a new direction for future education on this earth. Since Duck-Joo has tried to build up a close link among the scholars in the field in the East Asia for the last 20 years, her contribution well represents the East Asian questions on modernity, especially its troubled relation to the tradition. Her publications on this topic tend to focus on a new interpretation of Confucianism for liberal democratic citizenship.