Dr. Yu Wei is Professor of the Faculty of Education, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, China. He is also Principal of three elementary schools in Changchun. He was awarded Changjiang Distinguished Professor by Ministry of Education, China. He serves as Deputy Director of the Pedagogy Branch in the Chinese Society of Education and Vice Director of the Philosophy of Education Society of China. He is also Member of the National Textbook Committee and the National Academic Committee of Educational Theory.His research interests include philosophy of education, children philosophy, and school education innovation.

• Chapter 1: Modernity, localization and free-spirit education:  Our paths.- Chapter 2: Free-spirit education: background and history.- Chapter 3: Free-spirit education: what it means.- Chapter 4: Free-spirit education in classroom: Process-based inductive teaching.- Chapter 5: Cases from the field.- Chapter 6: Ten books for free-spirit education.

Dr. Yu Wei is Professor of the Faculty of Education, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, China. He is also Principal of three elementary schools in Changchun. He was awarded Changjiang Distinguished Professor by Ministry of Education, China. He serves as Deputy Director of the Pedagogy Branch in the Chinese Society of Education and Vice Director of the Philosophy of Education Society of China. He is also Member of the National Textbook Committee and the National Academic Committee of Educational Theory.His research interests include philosophy of education, children philosophy, and school education innovation.

• Chapter 1: Modernity, localization and free-spirit education:  Our paths.- Chapter 2: Free-spirit education: background and history.- Chapter 3: Free-spirit education: what it means.- Chapter 4: Free-spirit education in classroom: Process-based inductive teaching.- Chapter 5: Cases from the field.- Chapter 6: Ten books for free-spirit education.

Dr. Yu Wei is Professor of the Faculty of Education, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, China. He is also Principal of three elementary schools in Changchun. He was awarded Changjiang Distinguished Professor by Ministry of Education, China. He serves as Deputy Director of the Pedagogy Branch in the Chinese Society of Education and Vice Director of the Philosophy of Education Society of China. He is also Member of the National Textbook Committee and the National Academic Committee of Educational Theory.His research interests include philosophy of education, children philosophy, and school education innovation.

• Chapter 1: Modernity, localization and free-spirit education:  Our paths.- Chapter 2: Free-spirit education: background and history.- Chapter 3: Free-spirit education: what it means.- Chapter 4: Free-spirit education in classroom: Process-based inductive teaching.- Chapter 5: Cases from the field.- Chapter 6: Ten books for free-spirit education.