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This book bridges the regions of East Asia and the West by offering a detailed and critical inquiry of educational concepts of the East Asian tradition. It provides educational thinkers and practitioners with alternative resources and perspectives for their educational thinking, to enrich their educational languages and to promote the recognition of educational thoughts from different cultures and traditions across a global world. The key notions of Confucian and Neo-Confucian philosophy directly concern the ideals, processes and challenges of learning, education and self-transformation, which can be seen as the western equivalences of liberal education, including the German concept of Bildung. All the topics in the book are of fundamental interest across diverse cultures, giving a voice to a set of long-lasting and yet differentiated cultural traditions of learning and education, and thereby creating a common space for critical philosophical reflection of one's own educational tradition and practice. The book is especially timely, given that the vocabularies in educational discourse today have been dominantly “West centred” for a long time, even while the whole world has become more and more diverse across races, religions and cultures. It offers a great opportunity to philosophers of education for their cross-cultural understanding and self-understanding of educational ideas and practices on both personal and institutional levels.

Education --- Philosophy. --- Education—Philosophy. --- Philosophy and social sciences. --- Philosophy, Asian. --- Ethnology—Asia. --- Humanism. --- Educational Philosophy. --- Philosophy of Education. --- Non-Western Philosophy. --- Asian Culture. --- Philosophy --- Classical education --- Classical philology --- Philosophical anthropology --- Renaissance --- Asian philosophy --- Oriental philosophy --- Philosophy, Oriental --- Social sciences and philosophy --- Social sciences

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Exemplifying what it advocates, this book is an innovative attempt to retrieve the essay form from its degenerate condition in academic writing. Its purpose is to create pedagogical space in which the inner struggle of ˜lived experience' can articulate itself in the first person. Working through essays, the modern, ˜post-secular' self can guide, understand, and express its own transformation. This is not merely a book about writing methods: it has a sharp existential edge.  Beginning by defining key terms such as ˜self-transformation', Kwak sketches the contemporary debates between Jürgen Habermas and Charles Taylor on the status of religious language in the public domain, and its relationship to secular language. This allows her to contextualize her book's central questions: how can philosophical practice reduce the experiential rift between knowledge and wisdom? How can the essay form be developed so that it facilitates, as praxis, pedagogical self-transformation? Kwak develops her answers by working through ideas of George Lukács and Stanley Cavell, of Hans Blumenberg and Søren Kierkegaard, whose work is much less familiar in this context than it deserves to be.  Kwak's work provides templates for new forms of educational writing, new approaches to teaching educators, and new ways of writing methodology for educational researchers. Yet the importance of her ideas extends far beyond teaching academies to classroom teachers, curriculum developers - and to anyone engaged in the quest to lead a reflective life of one's own.

Philosophy --- Teacher education. Teacher's profession --- Curriculum development --- Teaching --- onderwijsfilosofie --- onderwijs --- curriculumontwikkeling --- lerarenopleiding --- lesgeven --- Education --- Essay --- Transformative learning --- Perspective transformation --- Transformations (Adult learning) --- Transformative education --- Learning --- Critical pedagogy --- Authorship

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Philosophy --- Philosophy and psychology of culture --- Sociology --- Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- onderwijsfilosofie --- etnologie --- sociologie --- filosofie --- sociale filosofie --- humanisme --- Asia