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9th GINTL-JoLii webinar: Cultural traditions and modern education: Experiences in China [December, 13]

Welcome to the 9th webinar of the series ‘Dialogues on education and society’! In the webinar, the speakers Jyrki Kallio (Finnish Institute of International Affairs, FIIA) and Xiaoyang Wang (Capital Normal University) will share how certain aspects of education were understood in the ancient Confucian texts and tradition. In addition, they will reflect how those understandings are connected to present-day expressions concerning the purpose of education in China. The speakers and chair Baocun Liu (Beijing Normal University) will also reflect what the modern higher education could learn and adopt from the Confucian tradition.

Title: Cultural traditions and modern education: Experiences in China

Time: 13.12.2022 

Recording

Sub-theems and speakers:

  • Rote learning, heuristic education, and what did Confucius say? by Jyrki Kallio, Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA); University of Lapland

  • Confucius’ perspective of the aim of higher education and its modern transformation by Xiaoyang Wang, Institute of Higher Education, College of Education, Capital Normal University  ppt slides

Speaker bios:

Jyrki Kallio, PhD, is a Senior Research Fellow at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs and holds the Title of Docent in International Relations and Chinese Studies at the University of Lapland. His research foci include Chinese political culture and foreign policy, and he has a special interest in the instrumentalisation of traditional schools of thought in East Asian politics. He has translated classical Chinese philosophy and prose and received the J.A. Hollo Prize for his work in 2015. His latest monograph, a critical reader on Confucianism, was published in 2022. Previously, he served the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland as a diplomat.

 

Wang Xiaoyang is currently director and professor at the Institute of Higher Education, College of Education, Capital Normal University. From 2009 to 2019, he served as the director of the Institute of Higher Education at Tsinghua University. He currently also holds positions as the chairman of the Sociology of Education Research Association of the Chinese Sociological Association as well as as the vice-chairman of the University Culture Research Association of the China Association of Higher Education. In 2004, he was a visiting scholar at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States. He has previously served as an officer in the Education Section of the Chinese Embassy in the United States.

 

Webinar facilitator

Dr.  Baocun Liu is a professor of comparative education and the director of the Institute of International and Comparative Education (IICE) at Beijing Normal University. He is also the director of the National Center for Comparative Education at Beijing Normal University, the director of the National Center for International Education at Beijing Normal University. He serves as president of  the Comparative Education Society of Asia (CESA), president of  China Comparative Education(CCES), Board Member of World Council of Comparative Education Societies (WCCES), Board Member of Chinese Society of Education, Board Member of Chinese Society of Education Development Strategy, Supervisory Board Member of China Foreign Intelligence Introduction Society, co-editor of the International and  Comparative Education .

Dr. Liu received his PhD in Comparative Education from Beijing Normal University in 2002. With his specialisation and research interests in comparative education, higher education, education policy and management, he has been involved in a wide range of national and international research and consultancy projects, and published more than 260 journal papers and 20 books.

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