An Inquiry into Education.

• Superior document: Brill's Series on Chinese Education Series ; v.8
• Author: Qu, Baokui.
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : BRILL,, 2024.; ©2024.
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's Series on Chinese Education Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (251 pages)

The book is a collection of five significant articles that highlight Professor Baokui QU's research on the evolution of the eduational discipline in China, the classification of educational sciences, and the metatheory of education.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- 1 One Hundred Years of the Discipline -- 1 Evolution of "Is" in the Discipline of Education in China -- 1.1 The First Period (1902‒1919) -- 1.2 The Second Period (1919‒1949) -- 1.3 The Third Period (1949-1956) -- 1.4 The Fourth Stage (1956-1966) -- 1.5 The Fifth Period (1966-1976) -- 1.6 The Sixth Period (1976-2002) -- 2 Deriving "Ought" from "Is" -- 3 Thoughts on the Scientification of Education as a Discipline -- 4 Study on the Sinicization of Education as a Discipline -- 5 Pursuit of the Modernization of Education as a Discipline -- Acknowledgements -- 2 The Discipline of Education in China: A Hundred-Year Odyssey -- Abstract -- 1 -- 2 -- 3 -- 4 -- 5 -- 3 An Overview of Metatheory and Metatheory of Education -- 1 The Study of Metatheory -- 2 Western Metatheoretical Study of Education -- 3 Metatheory of Education in China -- 3.1 Historical Analysis of Modern Western Educational Theory -- 3.2 Discussion of Western Influence and the Discipline of Education with Chinese Character -- 3.3 Criticism of Current Educational Theory -- 3.4 Other Issues -- 4 The Scope and Method of Metatheory of Education -- Acknowledgements -- 4 The Logical Starting Point of Pedagogy: Yesterday's Perspectives and Today's Understanding -- 1 Three Premises -- 1.1 What Is the "Logical Starting Point"? -- 1.2 Whose "Logical Starting Point"? -- 1.3 What Are the Prescriptions of the "Logical Starting Point"? -- 2 Analysis of Several Perspectives on the Logical Starting Point -- 3 "Learning" Is the Logical Starting Point of Pedagogy -- 4 Conclusion -- 5 The Classification of Educational Sciences: Issues and Framework -- 1 -- 2 -- 3 -- 4 -- Acknowledgements -- Index -- Subject Index -- Name Index.