1st Edition
Whole Person Education in East Asian Universities Perspectives from Philosophy and Beyond
This book provides much new thinking on the phenomenon of whole-person education, a phenomenon which features strongly in East Asian universities, and which aims to develop students intellectually, spiritually, and ethically, to master critical thinking skills, to explore ethical challenges in the surrounding community, and to acquire a broad based foundation of knowledge in humanities, society, and nature. The book considers different approaches to whole person education, including Confucian, Buddhist, and Chinese perspectives, Western philosophy, and religion and interdisciplinary approaches. Overall, the book provides a comprehensive overview of whole person education, why it matters and how to implement it. Moreover, although the examples in the book are from East Asia, the discussion and the values involved are universal, important for the whole world.
1 Introduction: East and West Perspectives on Whole Person Education
BENEDICT S. B. CHAN and CHI MING VICTOR CHAN
PART I
Confucian, Buddhist, and Chinese Perspectives
2 Reconsidering Confucian Understanding of Human Person and Its
Implications for Whole-Person Education
PAN CHIU LAI
3 Scholastic Universities, Monastic Schools and Confucian Colleges:
Historical Tensions in Whole Person Education and Prospective Solutions
PING CHEUNG LO
4 The Master’s Student Learning Outcomes and Assessment Methods: An
Alternative Perspective on Pedagogy
MARK J. BOONE
5 Confucian Ritual and Holistic Moral Education
TSZ WAN ANDREW HUNG
6 A Discussion on Master Hsing Yun's idea in University Whole Person
Education
KAI CHUNG POON
7 From Orthodox Chinese Culture to Taiwanization – An analysis of the
Chinese Culture Renaissance Committee to the General Association of
Chinese Culture in Taiwan
WILLIAM NG
PART II
Western Philosophy and Religion in Asia
8 The Theory of Moral Sentiments and Whole Person Education
ZHAOHUI HONG
9 Human Being as Both Being in Itself and Being in Relation: Thomas
Aquinas’s Metaphysical Vision of Whole Person Education
ZIQIANG BAI
10 Reflection on the Christian Philosophy of Science Education-
Case Study of the Creation-Evolution Controversy and Intelligent Design in
the Classroom
KAI MAN KWAN
11 Whole Person Education as a Multidimensional and Sialogical process: A
South Indian Example
DANIEL JEYARAJ
12 What Christian Gracious Moral Cultivation Can Contribute Distinctively to
Character and Moral Education in the Teaching of Whole Person Education in
Taiwan?
TSUNG I HWANG
PART III
Multidisciplinary and Interdisciplinary Approaches: Philosophy and Beyond
13 Big Data, Algorithms and Whole-Person Education—the Ethical Challenges
of Privacy Issues on using iBeacon Technology in Higher Education in Hong Kong
SIN YEE CALISTA LAM, MAN SING WONG and BENEDICT S. B. CHAN
14 Beyond Emotion Regulation: Revisiting the Role of Emotion Education in Whole
Person Development
MUK YAN WONG
15 Teaching Social Sciences as Phrónēsis: Prospect and Challenges
CHI MING VICTOR CHAN AND KAI CHUNG POON
16 Toward a "Holistic View" of Faculty Development : Practices in Japan, and the
Pragmatic Community of Inquiry for Education
YOSHIHIRO TANIGAWA
Biography
Benedict S. B. Chan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Religion and Philosophy and Associate Director in the Centre for Applied Ethics at Hong Kong Baptist University.
Victor C. M. Chan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Science and Associate Director (Service Learning) in the Centre for Teaching and Learning at the Hang Seng University of Hong Kong.
