VOLUME 7(1) • 2019
FOUCAULT IN CHINESE EDUCATIONAL STUDIES
ABSTRACT. Professor Huang Zhongjing, Head and Professor, Department of Education, of the Faculty of Education at East China Normal University (ECNU), invited me to give some lectures to MA and PhD students on the French philosopher Michael Foucault and to introduce the work of Ludwig Wittgenstein. T..
AESTHETIC EDUCATION: TOWARD A POSSIBLE AESTHETIC LIFE
ABSTRACT. This paper argues for a kind of aesthetic education from the perspective of Michel Foucault’s aesthetics of existence. It starts from an interesting and common scene in Chinese schools. To narrate this phenomenon, this paper aims to reveal that schooling actually cultivates heteronomic stu..
USING FOUCAULT’S THEORY OF TECHNOLOGIES OF THE SELF TO EXAMINE THE LEARNING PROCESS IN CHINA’S MATH CLASSROOMS
ABSTRACT. Learning is a process of constructing knowledge and culture. Analyzing this process is an exploration of the learning mechanism. And classroom experience is ultimately embedded within the richness of Foucault’s “technologies of self” relationships. With the interaction analysis on a China’..
GOVERNMENTALITY AND PRIVATE TUTORING IN CHINA
ABSTRACT. As in other parts of the world, the last decade has witnessed a significant expansion in private tutoring in China, globally known as shadow education. Such tutoring activities occupy much of the spare time of K12 students, consume a considerable amount of family resources, and have far-re..
FOUCAULDIAN PERSPECTIVE: EXPLORING GOVERNMENTALITY AND THE SELF-DEVELOPMENT OF CHINA’S SHADOW EDUCATION SECTOR
ABSTRACT. The main topic of this study is the art of governmentality and self-development in the shadow education sector in China. The study considers three main points: the social and economic background of shadow education development, the governmentality of shadow education based on policy and pr..
DISCIPLINE UNDER CHINA’S COLLEGE ENTRANCE EXAMINATION SYSTEM REFLECTED IN THE DOCUMENTARY SENIOR YEAR – BASED ON FOUCAULT’S MICRO-POWER THEORY
ABSTRACT. Foucault establishes the theory of microcosmic power from the postmodernist theoretical position. Based on his disciplinary power perspective, this article attempts to analyze the status of discipline within the Chinese college entrance examination system, reflected in the documentary Seni..
FROM DISCIPLINE TO COMMUNICATION: REFLECTIONS ON THE RECONSTUCTION OF TEACHER–STUDENT RELATIONSHIPS
ABSTRACT. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) believes that the teacher–student relationship is the core of the education process. If teachers cannot understand and accept this concept and cannot implement it effectively, it is impossible for reform to achie..
HOW FOUCAULT’S THOUGHTS AFFECT PEDAGOGY RESEARCH IN CHINA
ABSTRACT. Foucault’s thoughts were first introduced to China in the early 1980s. Initially, they were only discussed in the small circle of the Peking University Philosophy Department and did not impact the larger Chinese academic community. However, with the opening up of China to foreign thought, ..