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Record Nr.

UNINA9910736981003321

Autore

Yu Wei

Titolo

Chinese Schooling and Free-Spirit Education / / by Wei Yu

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore : , : Springer Nature Singapore : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2023

ISBN

9789819943500

9819943507

Edizione

[1st ed. 2023.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (158 pages)

Disciplina

371.102

Soggetti

Schools

Education - Philosophy

Education - Curricula

School Research

Educational Philosophy

Curriculum Studies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1: Modernity, localization and free-spirit education: Our paths -- Chapter 2: Free-spirit education: background and history -- Chapter 3: Free-spirit education: what it means -- Chapter 4: Free-spirit education in classroom: Process-based inductive teaching -- Chapter 5: Cases from the field -- Chapter 6: Ten books for free-spirit education.

Sommario/riassunto

Reaching deep into the wealth of Chinese philosophical wisdom, this book offers rich insights into a way of educating that has found staunch advocates among educators through the ages. The ‘free-spirit education’, which calls on educators to respect and nurture the natural goodness of each child, affords an educational principle that is embedded in one of the most important Confucian classics: The Doctrine of the Mean. This book analyzes the meaning, history, principles, and educational application of ‘free-spirit education’ and also explores its contemporary development in the context of a school improvement initiative. It introduces the intellectual origins of ‘free-spirit education’, the application in ’process-based inductive teaching’ and cases from the field. It presents the collection of pedagogical cases



that are rooted in the traditions of Chinese philosophic inquiry and viewed through the lens of contemporary pedagogy for human development. This book is a useful reference for university faculty, educational researchers, school teachers and leaders, graduate and undergraduate students in curriculum studies and in philosophy, social science, and education, curriculum developers, and all those educators who are interested in understanding ‘free-spirit education’—a key component of the humanistic traditions of Chinese education.