China through the Lens of Comparative Education

Ruth Hayhoe is Professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Canada.

• Part I: Comparative Education and China 1. A Chinese Puzzle2. Language in Comparative Education: Three Strands3. Redeeming Modernity4. Ten Lives in Mine: Creating Portraits of Influential Chinese Educators5. The Use of Ideal Types in Comparative Education: A Personal Reflection6. Philosophy and Comparative Education: What Can We Learn from East Asia?Part II: Higher Education and History7. Universities, Cultural Identity, and Democracy: Some Canada-China Comparisons8. An Asian Multiversity? Comparative Reflections on the Transition to Mass Higher Education in East Asia9. Lessons from the Chinese Academy10. China’s Universities, Cross-Border Education and the Dialogue among Civilizations11. The Idea of a University of EducationPart III: Religion, Culture and Education12. A Chinese Catholic Philosophy of Higher Education in Republican China13. Christianity and Cultural Transmission14. Hong Kong’s Potential for Global Educational Dialogue: Retrospective and Vision15. A Bridge Too Far? Comparative Reflections on St. Paul and Confucius

"The volume is an excellent collection illustrating Ruth Hayhoe’s considerable scholarship and its continuing relevance. It will be of great value to graduate students, as well as to more experienced academics, and not only those studying Chinese and Comparative Education. The great merits of this book lie in the scholarly accuracy and depth with which its important topics are considered, and the lucid way in which they are presented. This is notable, given the superficial, repetitive, and prolix nature of so much current social science writing. It has been a pleasure to read and to learn from it. Ruth Hayhoe is a pioneer scholar of Chinese and of Comparative Education whom we should continue to follow." - W. John Morgan, UNESCO Chair of the Political Economy of Education, School of Education; Senior Fellow, China Policy Institute, University of Nottingham; and Honorary Professor, School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University