Date: Thursday 2 June 2022
Time: 12.00pm-1.00pm AEST
Location: Online event
Call for participants: Reading group on Citizenship and Education in Chinese Societies
This reading group mainly focuses on Citizenship and Education in Chinese societies. Readings and discussions will take place quarterly via Zoom meeting, with 3 to 4 sessions per year. For each session, with three to four months for reading and 90-minute virtual discussion, we aim to review a book written by established scholars; and apply their thoughts to Chinese citizenship and education. We warmly welcome participants from any disciplinary at any stage of study. People outside of academia are also welcomed to contribute or participate.
Session one
We propose to base the first session on Keith Barton and Li-Ching Ho’s new book Curriculum for Justice and Harmony: Deliberation, Knowledge, and Action in Social and Civic Education.
This book combines Western justice and Aristotelian philosophy with Confucian thought on harmony, compassion, benevolence, discretion and civility; and it foregrounds indigenous attitudes towards environmental issues. It does well to assess social and civic education from a culturally inclusive perspective rather than from a dominant Eurocentric worldview.
Our goal for session one is to critically compare the Eastern concept of harmony and the Western idea of justice in a Chinese educational setting. More specifically, we want to see what we can learn from each other in terms of citizenship competence and education in Chinese societies, including the complex issues of balancing local and global concerns.
This event was a transnational collaboration, initiated by PhD student and supervisor at School of Education and Social Work and China Studies Centre based at the University of Sydney, and contributed by colleagues at the University of Melbourne and the State University of New York.
BOOK
Keith Barton and Li-Ching Ho’s (2021) Curriculum for Justice and Harmony: Deliberation, Knowledge, and Action in Social and Civic Education.
ZOOM MEETING
You will receive a zoom link upon registration
DECORUM AND PRIVACY
Please note that all participants must agree to create and maintain a safe space for discussion, and any information you choose to share with us will not be shared with any third party.
ORGANISERS
- Jing Dang, PhD student
- Dr. Yeow-Tong Chia, Senior Lecturer
- China Studies Centre, and Sydney School of Education and Social Work, University of Sydney
CONTRIBUTORS
- Eric Fu, research fellow at the University of Melbourne
- Yuxuan Gong, PhD candidate at State University of New York, Albany
CONTACT US
Facebook: Chinese Citizenship and Education Reading Group (@CCERG)
Email: Jing Dang, jdan8395@uni.sydney.edu.au