Constructivism and Teachers in Chinese Culture Enriching Confucianism with Constructivism /

• Main Author: Wei, Zitong (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Education-Philosophy.; Philosophy and social sciences.; Teaching.; Child development.; Philosophy, Asian.; Educational Philosophy.; Philosophy of Education.; Teaching and Teacher Education.; Early Childhood Education.; Non-Western Philosophy.

This book provides a refreshing look at kindergarten teachers' practical knowledge and their context-specific reasoning of the usefulness of constructivism from a culturally emic perspective. Examining the similarities and differences between constructivism and Confucianism from both instructio...

Table of Contents:

• Acknowledgements
• Preface
• Chapter 1 Contemporary Constructivism and Its Usefulness in a Confucian Context
• Chapter 2 Constructivism in Confucian Culture
• Chapter 3 Constructivist Teaching in China Today
• Chapter 4 A Hermeneutic Analysis of Chinese Teachers
• Chapter 5 Flexibility and Balancing: Against the "Apprenticeship of Observation"
• Chapter 6 Synchronicity and Symbolizing: Reflective Teaching and Learning
• Chapter 7 Accompaning and Composing: Moral Accommodations
• Chapter 8 A Relational Paradigm of Cross-Cultural Learning
• Index.