This volume broadens the horizon of educational research in North America by introducing a comprehensive dialogue between Eastern and Western philosophies and perspectives on the subject of curriculum theory and practice. It is a very timely work in light of the progressively globalized nature of education and educational studies and the increasing
Author(s): Claudia Eppert, Hongyu Wang
Series: Studies in Curriculum Theory
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2007
Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Foreword: "The Sickness of the West"
Preface: Openings into a Curriculum of the Way
1 "The Farthest West Is But the Farthest East": The Long Way of Oriental/Occidental Engagement
2 Breathing Qi (Ch'i), Following Dao (Tao): Transforming This Violence-Ridden World
3 Fear, (Educational) Fictions of Character, and Buddhist Insights for an Arts-Based Witnessing Curriculum
4 Socially-Engaged Buddhism as a Provocation for Critical Pedagogy in Unsettling Times
5 The Gaze of the Teacher: Eye-to-Eye with Lacan, Derrida, and the Zen of Dōgen and Nishitani
6 Shanti, Peacefulness of Mind
7 My Lived Stories of Poetic Thinking and Taoist Knowing
8 Engendering Wisdom: Listening to Kuan Yin and Julian of Norwich
9 Eastern Wisdom and Holistic Education: Multidimensional Reality and the Way of Awareness
10 Krishnamurti and Me: Meditations on His Philosophy of Curriculum and on India
11 Radical Times: Perspectives on the Qualitative Character of Duration
12 Hearing, Contemplating, and Meditating: In Search of the Transformative Integration of Heart and Mind
13 The Strength of the Feminine, the Lyrics of the Chinese Woman's Self, and the Power of Education
14 Toward a Confucian Vision of Curriculum
Afterword: Teaching Along The Way
Contributors
Name Index
Subject Index
