Authentic Chinese Educational Thought

Ruth Hayhoe, Ph.D (1984), University of London, is Professor of Higher Education at the University of Toronto. She served as Cultural Attaché in the Canadian Embassy in Beijing (1989-91) and Director of the Hong Kong Institute of Education (1997-2002). She has published widely and China through the Lens of Comparative Education appeared in Routledge’s World Library of Educationalists in 2015.Jun Li, Ph.D (1992, East China Normal University; 2006, University of Maryland at College Park), is a Professor at Western University in Canada. He has focused on comparative studies of education and East Asia for the past four decades, recently advocating the improvement of policy and leadership in comparative and international education, higher education, teacher education, citizenship education and civil society.Julia Pan (Ph.D 1996, University of Toronto) is currently an adjunct professor in the Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto.

• Introduction: Insights from Pioneering Chinese EducatorsEdited by Ruth Hayhoe, Jun Li and Julia PanPART 1: Professor Li Bingde’s Articles1 On the So-called Adaptation of Education to Meet Social NeedsLi Bingde2 Making Experimental Research on Chinese Language Teaching More ScientificLi Bingde3 A Scientific Attitude towards Educational ExperimentsLi Bingde4 On Essential Elements of Teaching and Their InterrelationshipsLi Bingde5 A Brief Overview of Sino-Western Exchange: Past and PresentLi BingdePART 2: Professor Lu Jie’s Articles6 Education: A Practical Activity for Constructing the Human SelfLu Jie7 Moral Education in China’s Social Transition: Where Is the Future?Lu Jie8 Life-Based Moral Education Curriculum: On the Changes in China’s Moral Education Curriculum in Primary SchoolsLu Jie9 Cultivation of Knowledge Persons: An Educational Belief Worthy of Critical ReflectionLu Jie10 An Answer to Globalization: Enhancing Cultural AwarenessLu JiePART 3: Professor Wang Fengxian’s Articles11 Marx’s Theory of Alienation and All-round Human DevelopmentWang Fengxian12 Exploration on Education Modernization and Cross-cultural Exchange Intersections in ChinaWang Fengxian13 Critical Reflections on the Hot Issue of “Education Industrialization” in ChinaWang FengxianPART 4: Professor Huang Ji’s Articles14 An Overview of Chinese Aesthetics and Aesthetic EducationHuang Ji15 Historical Trajectory and Characteristics of Educational Philosophy in Ancient ChinaHuang Ji16 Human Subjectivity and EducationHuang Ji17 Some Reflections on Educational ReformHuang JiIndex