Cultivating the Confucian Individual The Confucian Education Revival in China

This book explores the complexities of cultivating ‘Confucian individuals’ through classics study in contemporary China by drawing on the individualization thesis and its implications for the Confucian education revival. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted at a Confucian classical school, thre...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wang, Canglong
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Palgrave Macmillan 2023, 2023
Edition:1st ed. 2023
Series:Palgrave Studies on Chinese Education in a Global Perspective
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1: Introduction: Confucian education revival and Chinese individualization
  • Chapter 2: Individualization, subjectification, and Confucian education
  • Chapter 3: Choosing a Confucian education: The rise of critical parents
  • Chapter 4: Inventing an individualized approach to memorization: Debates, reforms, and contradictions
  • Chapter 5: Cultivating the autonomous learner: Disciplinary power, techniques of the self, and pedagogical dilemmas,- Chapter 6: Returning to state schools? Educational re-embedding and the institutional dilemma
  • Chapter 7: Continuing Confucian studies? The individual self, sage discourse, and parental authority
  • Chapter 8: Conclusion: Individualization with Confucianism.