News & Announcements

2024 Comparative Education Society of Hong Kong (CESHK) Conference

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the first Call for Papers for the 2024 Annual Conference of the Comparative Education Society of Hong Kong (CESHK), in collaboration with the Comparative Education Center at the University of Hong Kong. We welcome papers for the Conference which celebrate looking backward and looking forward in comparative and international education in Hong Kong, China, and around the world. Submissions which focus on other areas of comparative and international education are also welcome. Please find the attached Call for Papers for more details.

Submissions can be for an individual presentation (with one or more authors) or a panel. Presentations can be in English, Cantonese, or Mandarin/Putonghua.

To submit your paper, please visit the submission link: CESHK 2024 Annual Conference Submission

Important Dates

01.06 Submission deadline

31.07 Announcement of results

01.10 Draft program released

15.10 Deadline for presenter membership and conference registration fee payments

01.11 Final program released

For more information, please go to our website (www.ceshk.net). You can also join our Facebook page which provides regular updates on CESHK events and related happenings.

We look forward to seeing you at the Conference!

Sincerely,

CESHK Team

Information Age Publishing Call for Book Chapters

Call for Book Chapters

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

In Book Series “Current Perspectives in Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhism, and Education”

by Information Age Publishing

We entered the year of 2024 at the tail end (hopefully) of the crisis of the pandemic COVID 19. At the cost of millions of lives worldwide, we have barely learned that the humanity’s continuing existence depends on the awareness of the connectedness between/amongst individuals, social-cultural groups, countries, and our shared environment on the Earth. We are continuing to struggle amongst various crises of conflicts between extreme opposing forces, including wars for resources or dominance, battles between oppositional political groups, deepening ruptures between races and gaps between rich and poor, and seemingly unresolvable debates between conflicting schools of thoughts philosophically and spiritually. This global phenomenon of polarization is also observed in the field of education. The ever-widening achievement/opportunity gap, the contested curriculum exclusion, and the standardized tests (which has seemingly stayed permanently) have caused larger and deeper fractures from the American ideals, democracy, and humanistic whole-child education.

Our collective ethos calls for a deep reflection of our acts for the sake of our survival and perhaps even progress. We desperately need to heal. That is to heal from the injuries of wars, battles, and other extreme polarizations and its products of violence. It is in this context, we are proposing to dig into our ancient wisdoms of Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism about healing and proffer it as a gift to contemporary educational thoughts and practices.

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. In these traditions, healing is considered as holistic processes or pathways physically, psychologically, philosophically, and spiritually. Recent research in education theories and practices have made big strides capitalizing on such wisdoms and created a rather large pool of research literature on the healing power of mindfulness and their educational interpretation and practices. Scholars in educational research have also researched on how mindfulness and meditation contribute to teaching and pedagogy. However, the healing energy and its educational significances in the broader contexts of Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism should be given the center stage. Our book proposal 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. The intercultural and international dialogues that build bridges between these schools of thought and Western theories are also welcome.

We started this SIG of Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhism and Education almost 18 years ago. The final outcome of this book is intended to contribute to our SIG’s 20-year celebration. Our tentative timeline for this book is the following:

August 1^st, 2024: a tentative title with 200-250 word abstract, and the author’s brief bio (100 words)

February 1^st, 2025: draft chapter submission

August 1^st, 2025: final chapter submission

November 1^st, 2025: book manuscript submission

All submissions should be sent in PDF file or Word file to our email addresses:

Xin.Li@csulb.edu, nonviolence2023@yahoo.com

We are looking forward to receiving your 200-250 word abstracts this summer.