Cross-Cultural Studies in Curriculum: Eastern Thought, Educational Insights (Hardcover)

Contents: D. Jardine, Foreword: "The Sickness of the West". Preface: Openings Into a Curriculum of the Way. D.G. Smith, "…the Farthest West Is But the Farthest East": The Long Way of Oriental / Occidental Engagement.H. Bai,A. Cohen, Breathing Qi (Ch’i), Following Tao: Transforming This Violence-Ridden World.C.Eppert, Fear, (Educational) Fictions of Character, & Buddhist Insights for an Arts-Based Witnessing Curriculum.R. Hattam, Socially-Engaged Buddhism as a Provocation for Critical Pedagogy in “Unsettling Times". j. jagodzinski, The Gaze of the Teacher: Eye-to-Eye With Lacan, Derrida and the Zen of Dõgen and Nishitani.T. Kaneda, Shanti, Peacefulness of Mind.X. Li, My Lived Stories of Poetic Thinking and Taoist Knowing.P.M. Hendry, Engendering Wisdom: Listening to Kuan Yin and Julian of Norwich. Y. Nakagawa,Eastern Wisdom and Holistic Education: Multidimensional Reality and the Way of Awareness.J. Piirto, Krishnamurti and Me: Meditations on His Philosophy of Curriculum and on India.K. Roy, Radical Times: Perspectives on the Qualitative Character of Duration.D. Vokey, Hearing, Contemplating, Meditating: In Search of the Transformative Integration of Heart and Mind.H. Wang, The Strength of the Feminine, the Lyrics of the Chinese Woman’s Self and the Power of Education.H. Zhang, Toward a Confucian Vision of Curriculum. M.A. Doll, Afterword: Teaching Along the Way.