With a focus on the role of discourse and language in education, this book examines China's
educational reform from an original perspective that avoids mapping on Westernized …

Epistemicide happens when globalizing West-centric discourses and practices dominate
non-Western societies, suppressing and killing the latter's cultural systems of knowledge …

This paper begins by reflecting on the significance of the 16th World Congress of
Comparative Education Societies which was held at Beijing Normal University (BNU) in …

To gain insight into Chinese students' perspectives on their education, this study examines
how they construct their learner identities by navigating multiple subject positions both at …

In international educational studies, cultural context matters and demands increased
attention by educational researchers worldwide. Along with a globalized discourse, how to …

This is a response to the commentaries on my essay,'Interpretation, autonomy, and
transformation'. However, the response is reoriented to further interpretation of Chinese …

In 2011, JCS (Vol. 43, No. 5) published a symposium titled 'Confucianism, modernization
and Chinese pedagogy'which explores the complex interplay between modernization and …

This chapter describes the emergence of normal schools and universities in Europe, with
values distinctive from those of the dominant university model. It then considers the historical …

This paper tackles the issue of education as the process of person-making and attempts to
redefine the ideal and unique Chinese person—the Chinese soul—based on a civilizational …

This chapter explains the changing concept of the Confucian man in the history of Confucian
evolution, particularly in Neo-Confucianism and New Confucianism, and how these …