Infusing Healing Energy into Education: Daoist, Buddhist, and Confucian Insights

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

In times of difficulties and crises as we are now experiencing, healing collectively and individually has become our ultimate priority. As three important pillars of philosophies and spiritualities in Asian cultures, Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism have profound knowledge, wisdom, intrinsic links and practices of healing. However, the healing energy and its educational significances in the broader contexts of Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism is not yet be given the center stage. Our proposed symposium intends to synergize our collective energies to develop our resilience and create a space for this strength-based, community-based, and experience-based restorative approach of healing in education. We will explore and investigate the healing power and its educational significances regarding both theory and practices, curriculum and pedagogy.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhism and Education

Chair

• Xin Li, California State University - Long Beach

Papers

• Chinese Philosophical Therapies and Inner Healing - Leonard J. Waks, Qufu Normal University, Shandong China

• From Mud to Lotus: Transforming Dukkha into a Pedagogy of Love - Gaston Esteban Bacquet, University of Glasgow

• Harmonizing as Healing, Pedagogical Attunement: A Daoist Approach - Hongyu Wang, Oklahoma State University - Tulsa

• Friends, Fools, and Foes: Restorative Buddhist Paradox and Transformation - Jin Jr Shi, Teachers College, Columbia University

• Daoism as an Intellectual Sanctuary of Healing for Personal and Social Cultural Trauma - Xin Li, California State University - Long Beach

• Returning to Who We Truly Are: Cultivating Qi Life Force for Healing Self and World - Jing Lin, University of Maryland

Session Organizer

• Xin Li, California State University - Long Beach

Discussant

• Hongyu Wang, Oklahoma State University - Tulsa