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Portraits of Influential Chinese Educators

Authors:

  1. Ruth Hayhoe

    1. University of Toronto, Canada

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  • Has a lively narrative presentation
  • Provides unique insights into Chinese society
  • Profiles many of China’s best known universities
  • Brings to life Confucian values
  • Makes Chinese civilization concrete through the drama of the real lives of educators

Part of the book series: CERC Studies in Comparative Education (CERC, volume 17)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XVII
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  5. Zhu Jiusi - A Visionary University Leader

    • Ruth Hayhoe
    Pages 109-143

  11. Lu Jie - A Woman Educator of Standing

    • Ruth Hayhoe
    Pages 292-323

  13. Comparative Reflections on the Portraits

    • Ruth Hayhoe
    Pages 359-371

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 372-400
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About this book

Portraits, whether graphic or verbal, have distinct purposes and values. Through deliberate selection, they seek to reveal and, thereby, to illuminate. In their literary form, selection of content and style ensures that they do not presume to achieve the status of fully-fledged biographies. Even so, a carefully brush-stroked, multi-layered and richly textured pen-portrait is capable of revealing much about both character and circumstance. And what it reveals is likely to be different from and far more profound than any insights permitted by other miniatures, such as simple snapshots or polemical caricatures. Professor Ruth Hayhoe has produced a whole gallery of valuable portraits in the present book. For a book in the present series, however, a key question remains. How and why may pen-portraits of eleven influential educators, from a single country and within roughly the same time frame, contribute significantly to the literature of comparative education? My own answer to this question is simple. This particular gallery makes its important contribution in two main ways and for a number of good reasons. The ‘How?’ part of the question clearly involves process, especially methodological process. A portrait typically involves both foreground and background features. Some of the most effective portraits seem to encourage their observers to recognize interplay between foreground and background.
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  • University of Toronto, Canada

    Ruth Hayhoe

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