25.055 - Teaching as Meeting and Responding to Students in the Troubled World: Multiple Perspectives

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This symposium re-examines the concepts of teaching and teachers, particularly in the sense that teaching is the meeting and responding of teachers to students that create the space for the formation and transformation of both teachers and students’ selves. The authors come from diverse philosophical perspectives and cultural traditions (particularly European and Chinese), use both theoretical and empirical approaches, and focus on different aspects of the concepts, to shed light on how teaching and teachers can contribute to the breakdown of social cultural barriers among individuals of differences and to the creation of sustainable and democratic forms of life and living together in this troubled world.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Philosophical Studies in Education

Chair

• Huajun Zhang, Beijing Normal University

Papers

• Trying to Be at Home in the World: An Argument for World-Centered Education - Gert J. Biesta, Brunel University

• Redefine Teacher-Student Relationship in the Troubled World - Guoping Zhao, Oklahoma State University

• Rethinking Teaching and Teachers: A Perspective From the German Didaktik Tradition - Zongyi Deng, Nanyang Technological University - National Institute of Education

• Remembering the Person in the Role of Teacher - David T. Hansen, Teachers College, Columbia University

• Teaching and Learning as Practice of Reciprocal Wholeness in Chinese Classrooms - Huajun Zhang, Beijing Normal University