Table of 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.

About the Author

Claudia Eppert, Hongyu Wang

Reviews

“...a sterling example of how the internationalization of curriculum studies deepens intercultural dialogue in the face of globalization.... Each chapter responds in some way to the dualisms of modernist logic, which has thrown us out of balance with nature, recalling the rich inheritance of centuries-old wisdom traditions founded upon harmony of mind, body, and spirit. Not only does this volume offer new directions in curriculum theory it will give sustenance to educators searching for a direction home, out of a deepening intellectual, spiritual, and moral confusion.”
—Terrance R. Carson
University of Alberta“The crises that afflict our educational systems will not be resolved without fresh ways of thinking. This insightful book is a good place to start: Western pedagogy engages with the wisdom of Asian traditions. The cross-cultural dialogues that result provide the kind of new perspectives that we need today.”
—David R. Loy
Xavier University