AERA CONFUCIANISM, TAOISM, BUDDHISM AND EDUCATION SIG
2015 CONFERENCE PROGRAM
April 16-20, Chicago, Illinois
BUSINESS MEETING (6:15-7:45PM): THURSDAY, APRIL 16, 2015
Location: Swissotel, Event Centre Second Level, ST. Gallen 1
Keynote Speech:
Active Role of Learners: An examination of Xun Zi’s Understanding of Learning/Knowledge Acquisition
Liqing Tao
College of Staten Island – CUNY
Gaoyin Qian
Lehman College – CUNY
PAPER SESSION (8:15-10:15AM): FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 2015
Session Title: Education as working within: Unfolding selfhood from Confucianist, Taoist, and Buddhist Perspectives
Location: Swissotel, Event Centre Second Level, ST. Gallen 1
1. Confucian Selfhood and the Idea of Multicultural Education.
Chenyu Wang, University of Virginia
2. Discussion on Tian-ren Learning and Its Implication to Modern Education
Jingyi Liu, University of Hawaii at Manoa; Lu Leng, University of Hawaii at Manoa
3. Exploring Cultural Approach for School Counseling: Use of Mindfulness for Promoting Students’ Wellbeing in Hong Kong Secondary Schools.
Ming-tak Hue, The Hong Kong Institute of Education
4. The Treasure of Nature: Exploring the Pedagogical Implications of Equity in Daoism and Lost Gospels.
Wilma Maki, Capilano University
5. Where is the Mustard Seed? The Challenges and Possibilities of Teaching Compassionately.
David Keiser, Montclair State University
6. “Wind” as Pedagogy: Confucius’s Pedagogic Vision in the Yijing Guan-Hexagram and Mao’s Wind-Regulation in the 1940s.
Weili Zhao, University of Wisconsin – Madison
ROUNDTABLE SESSION (10:35AM-12:05PM): FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 2015
Location: Hyatt, East Tower –Purple Level, Riverside West
1. Becoming a Walkaway: A Buddhist and Depth Psychological Approach to Scapegoating.
Alexandra Fidyk, University of Alberta
2. Pro and Con of Confucius Values and Their Shaping of Mainland China University Students Mental State.
Lei Zhang, Tsinghua University; Xiaoyang Wang, Tsinghua University
3. Sense of Self: A Comparative Study Between American and Chinese College Students.
Dengting Boyanton, Long Island University
4. Teachers’ Attitudes toward Education of Traditional Morality in Mainland China.
Xi Wang, Beijing Normal University