Confucianism Reconsidered: Insights for American and Chinese Education in the Twenty-First Century

Explores the rich potential of Confucianism in American and Chinese classrooms of the twenty-first century.

This is one of the first books to explicitly address twenty-first-century education from a Confucian perspective. The contributors focus on why Confucianism is relevant to both American and Chinese education, how Confucian pedagogical principles can be applied to diverse sociocultural settings, and what the social and moral functions of a Confucianism-based education are. Prominent sch...