Toward Relationally Engaging Confucian Texts as Contemporary Educational Resources
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8924377 |
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| Authors | Mary Chang (University of Hawaii–West Oahu, corresponding author), Mary K Chang (University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 56 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 482-505 |
| Publication date | 2020-08-19 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Educational Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-1946 • E-ISSN: 1532-6993 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00131946.2020.1799217 |
| OpenAlex | W3060024382 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 21 |
Normative notions that classical Chinese texts support authoritarian practices eclipse the possibility that the texts can become contemporary educational resources. Oriented by a conception of relationality, the research engages a Foucauldian approach to writing history as genealogy to argue that the political use of the so-called Confucian texts as content for imperial Chinese civil service examinations throughout much of the last two millennia situated the texts as objects and subjects of power. More specifically, the conflation of the philosophical texts with the exam process produced an extreme context enhanced by a public’s desire for success. This context shaped the conditions of textual engagement and contributed to reductive normative textual interpretations, which had broader social implications. However, if reading contexts influence textual meaning, then changes in contexts impact interpretations of these texts. This perspective suggests that educators of varied disciplines who directly engage the texts contribute to the ongoing construction of textual meanings, providing provocative frameworks to consider contemporary phenomena
Aesthetics · Authoritarianism · Conflation · Context (archaeology · Democracy · Epistemology · Linguistics · Meaning (existential · Normative · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Reading (process · Situated · Sociology · Chinese history and philosophy · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy · History · Law · Philosophy · Religious Education and Schools
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Discipline and Punish
Confucianism and Women
The Five "Confucian" Classics
Text and Ritual in Early China
Confucian Role Ethics
Building an Environmental Ethics from the Confucian Concepts of Zhengming and Datong
A Pragmatist and Feminist Relational (E)pistemology
Post-qualitative research
Poststructural feminism in education
China's Examination Hell. The Civil Service Examinations of Imperial China
Confucian Commentary and Chinese Intellectual History
Zhu Xi's Reading of the Analects
Foucault and Critique
What Is Cultural Studies Anyway
Thinking from the Han
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