En-Teaching: A Powerful Pedagogy

• In Event: Roundtable Session 39
  In Roundtable Session: Confucianism, Taoism, and Their Implications for Education

Abstract

Building upon Heidegger’s notions of teaching and learning, especially his work on (un)truth, I develop the notion of en-teaching, with additional insights from Lao Tzu and John Dewey, well recognized in the US and China as an educational reformer, one who railed against teaching-as-telling. My interconnected readings of Heidegger on (un)truth, being, language and modern technology, Lao Tzu on emptiness, inaction and Tao/way, and Dewey on growth, immaturity, and experience, “awakens” my exploration of “en-teaching” as alternative to, not against or contrary to, teaching. It expresses my idea of how teachers can teach through paradoxically non-teaching, without implying a binary opposition between teaching and non-teaching.

Author

• Jie Yu, Rollins College