Confucianism Reconsidered

Xiufeng Liu is Director of the Center for Educational Innovation and Professor of Learning and Instruction at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. He is the author of several books, including Linking Competence to Opportunities to Learn: Models of Competence and Data Mining. Wen Ma is Associate Professor of Education at Le Moyne College. He is the editor of East Meets West in Teacher Preparation: Crossing Chinese and American Borders and the coeditor (with Guofang Li) of Chinese-Heritage Students in North American Schools: Understanding Hearts and Minds Beyond Test Scores.

• ForewordGuofang LiAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Why Is Confucianism Still Relevant in the Globalized Twenty-First Century?Xiufeng Liu and Wen MaPart I. Relevance of Confucianism to American and Chinese Education 1. Becoming Confucian in America TodayPamela G. Herron2. Teaching Deliberation: Abandoning Aristotelian Persuasion and Embracing Confucian RemonstrationArabella Lyon3. Confucian Educational Thought: Enlightenment and Value for Contemporary Education in ChinaFangping Cheng4. Confucian Rituals and Science in Modern Chinese EducationXiaoqing Diana LinPart II. Confucian Insights on Teaching and Learning 5. Neo-Confucianism as a Guide for Contemporary Confucian EducationYair Lior6. Learning as Public Reasoning (gongyi): A Paradigmatic Shift of the Late-Imperial Confucian Educational Tradition in 17th-Century ChinaYang Wei7. The Confucian Philosophy of Education in Hexagram Meng (Shrouded) of the Yijing Bin Song8. Facilitating Critical Thinking of Chinese Students: A Confucian PerspectiveYin WuPart III. Confucianism and the Social and Moral Functions of Education 9. From Self-Cultivation to Social Transformation: The Confucian Embodied Pathway and Educational ImplicationsJing Lin10. Confucian Selfhood and the Idea of Multicultural EducationChenyu Wang11. Confucian Philosophical Foundations for Moral Education in an Era of Advanced TechnologyVincent Shen12. Rethinking Confucian Values in a Global AgeHuey-Li LiList of ContributorsIndex