Short description:

This volume explores the ways in which traditional Chinese wisdom can inform and enrich contemporary efforts to construct values that promote education and human development. It will be valuable to scholars and students with an interest in Chinese culture and history, cultural studies, Chinese language pedagogy.

Long description:

This volume explores the ways in which traditional Chinese wisdom can inform and enrich contemporary efforts to construct values that promote education and human development.

Global scholars from diverse backgrounds engage in a dialogue on the enduring legacy of Chinese wisdom and its relevance for addressing the multifaceted challenges of education in the modern era. To foster ideas that transcend cultural and spatial boundaries, the authors employ the framework of the United Nations’ five pillars of Sustainable Development to examine how traditional Chinese perspectives can offer insights for developing contemporary values that contribute to the common good and well-being of humanity. These themes underpin the comprehensive deliberations on how traditional Chinese wisdom can be leveraged to create new opportunities for fostering educational innovation and advancing human development in response to contemporary global challenges.

This volume will be valuable to scholars, educators and students with an interest in Chinese culture and history, cultural studies, Chinese language pedagogy, Chinese education and culture, and East Asian studies. It provides foundational concepts that are accessible to undergraduates, while offering in-depth analysis and research that will engage postgraduate students and researchers.

Table of Contents:

Section I. Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Lifeworld and Education Chapter 1. Cross-cultural exploration of values related concepts: Socio-cultural and educational issues John Chi-Kin Lee Chapter 2. Student self-formation and social sustainability: The Chinese and Euro-American civilisational traditions Simon Marginson Chapter 3. Divergent Visions of the One and the None: Plotinus, Wang Bi and the Parting of the Way in the Global Third Century Brook Ziporyn Chapter 4. Tianxia 天下, Global Philosophy, and Human Flourishing James D. Sellman Section II. Bridging Tradition and Modernity: In Search of Educational Innovation Chapter 5. Tradition and Innovation in Educational Systems: Exploring the Chinese Educational Model from the Lens of the Four Books (sishu 四書) Tiziana Lippiello Chapter 6. Taoism, Quantum Biology, and the Alchemy of Inner Work: Integrating Traditional Chinese Wisdom and Modern Sciences to Heal the Crises in Contemporary Education Jinting Wu Chapter 7. Ethically Sound: Confucius and His Disciples' Views on Music Education So-Jeong Park Chapter 8. Hakka Culture and Contemporary Values Education: Educating Through a Digital Virtual Museum Terry Tak-Ping Yip and Zhenzhou Zhao Section III. Ancient Wisdom for Modern Challenges: Driving Transformations Chapter 9. Value-based leadership of the Lüshi Chunqiu 呂氏春秋 as a model to answer the challenges of the modern world Marcin Jacoby Chapter 10. Confucian Thinking as a Liberation: The Contemporary Relevance and Challenge of an Age-Old Tradition On-cho Ng Chapter 11. Epistemological Flashpoints in Reinvoking China's Cultural Discourses for the Modern Wor(l)d: From Tianrenheyi to Ecological Civilization Weili Zhao Chapter 12. Education and Disinformation in Early Chinese Thought Scott Cook