Kaleidoscopic View of Chinese Philosophy of Education

<p>This book breaks the stereotype that links Chinese philosophy solely to Confucianism instead providing a kaleidoscopic view of Chinese philosophy of education. The contributors explore a variety of issues including the journey of modernisation (or Westernisation) of China’s education between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries; Chinese identity and the concept of race in education and history; contemporary interpretations of Confucian pedagogy in relation to twenty-first-century skills; the life story of a teacher in modern China as embodying the spirit of a Confucian pedagogue; the ecological self in education; an original interpretation of postmodern-Daoist symbolism; and the role of translation in producing and transmitting knowledge across cultural and linguistic boundaries. </p><p></p><p>This book was originally published as a special issue of <i>Educational Philosophy and Theory. </i></p>