Invited Symposium: One World, One Family: Constructing a New Vision of Education from the Asian Philosophical Perspective

Session Type: Business Meeting

Abstract

This invited symposium invites education researchers, scholars, and practitioners from a diverse background to examine the most complex issues and challenges facing the spectrum of today’s educational contexts. Guided by the theme of “One World, One Family: Constructing a New Vision of the Global Village from the Asian historical & Philosophical Perspective”, eight international scholars will seek solutions on how to rebuild a more harmonious world through educational reform. Together, this session integrates various perspectives including traditional Chinese medicine, Daoist cosmos of oneness, China’s higher education system, Japan's cultural history, mindful truth, South and South-East Asia indigenous and Buddhist philosophy, and positive psychology education, and present a cross-disciplinary, integrative, holistic, and multi-faceted approach to education.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhism and Education

Chair

• Dengting Boyanton, Sino-American Educational Research Association

Speakers

• Gerard Postiglione, University of Hong Kong

• Jing Lin, University of Maryland

• Xin Li, California State University - Long Beach

• Mark L. Blum, University of California - Berkeley

• Jin Jr Shi, Dharma Realm Buddhist University

• Maung Ting Nyeu, University of California - Santa Barbara

• Dengting Boyanton, Sino-American Educational Research Association

Discussants

• Liz Jackson, University of Hong Kong

• Jason Cong Lin, The Education University of Hong Kong

Officer

• Wenjin Guo, Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology