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Record Nr.

UNINA9910734823203321

Autore

Wang Canglong

Titolo

Cultivating the Confucian Individual : The Confucian Education Revival in China / / by Canglong Wang

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2023

ISBN

9783031276699

3031276698

Edizione

[1st ed. 2023.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (268 pages)

Collana

Palgrave Studies on Chinese Education in a Global Perspective, , 2945-6584

Disciplina

370.951

Soggetti

International education

Comparative education

Religion

Philosophy, Chinese

Education

International and Comparative Education

Confucianism

Chinese Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1: Introduction: Confucian education revival and Chinese individualization -- Chapter 2: Individualization, subjectification, and Confucian education -- Chapter 3: Choosing a Confucian education: The rise of critical parents -- Chapter 4: Inventing an individualized approach to memorization: Debates, reforms, and contradictions -- Chapter 5: Cultivating the autonomous learner: Disciplinary power, techniques of the self, and pedagogical dilemmas,- Chapter 6: Returning to state schools? Educational re-embedding and the institutional dilemma -- Chapter 7: Continuing Confucian studies? The individual self, sage discourse, and parental authority -- Chapter 8: Conclusion: Individualization with Confucianism. .

Sommario/riassunto

This book explores the complexities of cultivating ‘Confucian individuals’ through classics study in contemporary China by drawing



on the individualization thesis and its implications for the Confucian education revival. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted at a Confucian classical school, three topics are investigated: parents’ narratives and actions related to ‘dis-embedding’ their children from mainstream state education and transferring them to Confucian education as an alternative; the specific discourses and practices of teaching and learning the classics in everyday school life, guided by the aim of training students to become autonomous learners; and the institutional and subjective dilemmas that arise when parents and students seek to ‘re-embed’ themselves in either the state education system or further Confucian studies at an advanced academy for the next stage of education. The research presented in this book contributes to understanding the hidden dynamics of individualization in the Confucian education revival and the intricacies of subject-making through Confucian teaching and learning in the socialist state of China. Canglong Wang is a lecturer in Chinese Studies at the University of Hull, UK. His research extensively explores the cultural, social and political implications of the revival of Confucian education in contemporary China. His work has appeared in many leading journals and book chapters. He is the author of The Rise of Confucian Citizens in China (2023).