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Confucian Perspectives on Learning and Self-Transformation

International and Cross-Disciplinary Approaches

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Editors:
  1. Roland Reichenbach

    1. Institute of Education, University of Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland

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  2. Duck-Joo Kwak

    1. Department of Education, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea (Republic of)

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  • Presents a scholarly perspective on East Asian educational tradition and culture
  • Offers a manifold discussion of educational theory and practice in East Asia and its relevance to other regions in the world
  • Enriches the educational discourse by providing a new language of education to theorists, empirical researchers and practitioners

Part of the book series: Contemporary Philosophies and Theories in Education (COPT, volume 14)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. The Confucian Ethos of Learning: An Introduction

    • Roland Reichenbach, Duck-Joo Kwak
    Pages 1-25

  3. Knowledge and Virtues: Confucian Education as Life Education and Its Modern Relevance

    • Chung-yi Cheng
    Pages 27-43

  4. Educational Relationship in the Analects of Confucius

    • Jeong-Gil Woo
    Pages 45-62

  5. Ritual, Virtue, and Education: An Interpretation of Xunzi’s Philosophy of Ritual

    • Morimichi Kato
    Pages 63-78

  6. Ogyū Sorai on the Content and Intent of Learning

    • Paulus Kaufmann
    Pages 79-90

  7. Enlightenment and Freedom in a Confucian Way

    • Niklaus Schefer
    Pages 91-103

  8. “When the Heart-Mind Is Lost…” Remarks on the Metaphysics of Educational Theory

    • Roland Reichenbach
    Pages 105-123

  9. A Vietnamese Reading of the Master’s Classic: Phạm Nguyễn Du’s Humble Comments on the Analects – As an Example of Transformative Learning

    • Nam Nguyen
    Pages 125-156

  10. Self-Cultivation with Brushes: From the Perspective of Graphocentrism

    • Ruyu Hung
    Pages 157-170

  11. Zhu Xi’s Ethics of Reading: For the Recovery of Humanistic Pedagogies of Learning

    • Duck-Joo Kwak
    Pages 171-190

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 191-192
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About this book

This book bridges the regions of East Asia and the West by offering a detailed and critical inquiry of educational concepts of the East Asian tradition. It provides educational thinkers and practitioners with alternative resources and perspectives for their educational thinking, to enrich their educational languages and to promote the recognition of educational thoughts from different cultures and traditions across a global world.

The key notions of Confucian and Neo-Confucian philosophy directly concern the ideals, processes and challenges of learning, education and self-transformation, which can be seen as the western equivalences of liberal education, including the German concept of Bildung. All the topics in the book are of fundamental interest across diverse cultures, giving a voice to a set of long-lasting and yet differentiated cultural traditions of learning and education, and thereby creating a common space for critical philosophical reflection of one's own educational tradition and practice. 

The book is especially timely, given that the vocabularies in educational discourse today have been dominantly “West centred” for a long time, even while the whole world has become more and more diverse across races, religions and cultures. It offers a great opportunity to philosophers of education for their cross-cultural understanding and self-understanding of educational ideas and practices on both personal and institutional levels.


Editors and Affiliations

  • Institute of Education, University of Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland

    Roland Reichenbach

  • Department of Education, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea (Republic of)

    Duck-Joo Kwak

About the editors

Roland Reichenbach is professor of Foundation in Education at the University of Zurich in Switzerland. After teacher training he studied Clinical Psychology and Philosophical Ethics at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland. He was visiting scholar at Stanford University from 1992 to 1993 and at the Université de Montréal from 1997 to 1999. Reichenbach held former professorships at the University of Münster, Germany (2002-2008), and the University of Basel, Switzerland (2008-2012). His main interests: Philosophy of Bildung, pedagogical ethics, civic education, and cultures of negotiation.

Duck-Joo Kwak is a professor of Philosophy of Education at Seoul National University, Korea. Her recent research interests are in arts-education, philosophy of teacher education, and comparative philosophy of education on the humanistic traditions between the East and West. She also has written numerous articles on Stanley Cavell, especially his existential interpretation of later Wittgenstein, and civic and moral education in the post-liberal Confucian culture.



Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Confucian Perspectives on Learning and Self-Transformation

  • Book Subtitle: International and Cross-Disciplinary Approaches

  • Editors: Roland Reichenbach, Duck-Joo Kwak

  • Series Title: Contemporary Philosophies and Theories in Education

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-40078-1

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-40077-4Published: 19 May 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-40080-4Published: 19 May 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-40078-1Published: 18 May 2020

  • Series ISSN: 2214-9759

  • Series E-ISSN: 2214-9767

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 192

  • Number of Illustrations: 15 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Educational Philosophy, Philosophy of Education, Non-Western Philosophy, Asian Culture, Humanism

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