Overview
- Provides a scholarly analysis of ethical traditions in the East and West
- Clarifies the differences between virtue traditions
- Equips readers to handle complex ethical ideas
Part of the book series: East-West Dialogues in Educational Philosophy and Theory (EWDEPT)
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Tina Besley is a Distinguished Professor at the Faculty of Education, Beijing Normal University. She was previously Professor and Associate Dean International, in the Faculty of Education, University of Waikato, New Zealand; Research Professor, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign; Full Professor, California State University San Bernardino; and Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow where she began her academic career in late 2000, after 16 years a secondary school teacher, Head of Guidance,and Counsellor in New Zealand. She is the founding president of the Association for Visual Pedagogies and Past President of the Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia and honoured as a Fellow of both learned societies. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, UK. In Philosophy of Education, she uses the later work of Michel Foucault on subjectivity, free speech, governmentality. In global studies in education she explores policy, identities and cultures and interculturalism. Tina works closely with Prof. Michael A. Peters and with a wide international network of scholars in editorial roles for many journals and books. She has published over 30 books and monographs and numerous journal articles. Currently she and is Editor and Project manager for PESA Agora, associate editor of Educational Philosophy and Theory, and The Beijing International Review of Education.
Huajun Zhang (PhD) is an Associate Professor at Faculty of Education at Beijing Normal Unviersity. Her research areas are history of thoughts of education and China’s modern educational transformation and how teachers play the role. She is the author of the book John Dewey, Liang Shuming and China’s Education Reform: Cultivating Individuality (2013). She is the guest editor of the special issue John Dewey and Chinese Education: A Centennial Reflection at Beijing International Review of Education (Vol. 1, No. 4, 2019). She also serve as the Associate Editor of the English academic journal Beijing International Review of Education and Frontiers of Education in China.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Moral Education and the Ethics of Self-Cultivation
Book Subtitle: Chinese and Western Perspectives
Editors: Michael A. Peters, Tina Besley, Huajun Zhang
Series Title: East-West Dialogues in Educational Philosophy and Theory
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-8027-3
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-8026-6Published: 01 August 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-8029-7Published: 02 August 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-8027-3Published: 30 July 2021
Series ISSN: 2661-8753
Series E-ISSN: 2661-8761
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 275
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Educational Philosophy, Philosophy of Education, Moral Philosophy, Sociology of Citizenship