Overview
- Defines and provides an academic vocabulary to discuss an accepted but overlooked view area of teacher training
- Provides an overarching look at the historical roots of Chinese education and current practice in reflection
- Offers an alternative to standard introduction to education course books and standard Western educational psychology textbooks
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Education in the Asia-Pacific Region: Issues, Concerns and Prospects (EDAP, volume 26)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Given the increasing global interest in Chinese culture, this book uses case studies to describe and interpret Chinese cultivation in contemporary Taiwanese schools. Cultivation is a concept unique to Chinese culture and is characterized by different attitudes towards teaching and learning compared to Western models of education. The book starts with a discussion of human nature in Chinese schools of philosophy and levels of goodness. Following the philosophical background is a presentation of how cultivation is practiced in Chinese culture from prenatal through high school education. The case studies focus both on how students are cultivated as they become members of Chinese society, and on what role teachers play in cultivating the children in school. In addition, supports from Chinese educational institutions, including public schools, families, and organizations such as private cram schools, are introduced and explained. In closing, the book presents a critique of the modern school reform movement and the conflicts between the reform proposals and traditional practices. Based on the collective work of Taiwanese researchers in the fields of education, history and anthropology, the book identifies the purpose of education as cultivating virtue in a process of creating an ideal person who serves society, and describes the way teachers have carried on this tradition despite its faltering status in contemporary educational discourse and in the face of reform movements.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Shihkuan Hsu is a professor at the Center for Teacher Education, National Taiwan University.
Yuh-Yin Wu is a professor in the Department of Psychology and Counselling, National Taipei University of Education, and currently serves as the Dean of College of Education.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Education as Cultivation in Chinese Culture
Editors: Shihkuan Hsu, Yuh-Yin Wu
Series Title: Education in the Asia-Pacific Region: Issues, Concerns and Prospects
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-224-1
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Singapore 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-287-223-4Published: 12 November 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-10-1330-0Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-981-287-224-1Published: 24 October 2014
Series ISSN: 1573-5397
Series E-ISSN: 2214-9791
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 288
Number of Illustrations: 20 b/w illustrations
Topics: Sociology of Education, Community and Environmental Psychology, International and Comparative Education, Regional and Cultural Studies