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dc.contributor.authorWang, Canglong
dc.contributor.authorWang, Shuo
dc.date.accessioned2024-10-24T08:49:09Z
dc.date.available2024-10-24T08:49:09Z
dc.date.issued2023-12-01
dc.identifier.citationWang C, Wang S (2023) 'Educating the autonomous learner in a Confucian school: subjectivity, memorisation and dilemma', China perspectives, (135), pp.61-70.en_US
dc.identifier.issn2070-3449
dc.identifier.doi10.3316/informit.489104141773933
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10547/626400
dc.description.abstractThe current literature on Chinese governmentality and subjectivity lacks rigorous discussion of the involvement of Confucian education. This article applies Foucauldian conceptual tools to explore this scholarship gap empirically. Based on ethnographic fieldwork at a Confucian school, we explore how Confucian pedagogical techniques are used to create a type of subject. This article first presents pedagogical reform in a Confucian school. The resultant pedagogy of individualised memorisation combines two paradoxical knowledge sources: the individualised teaching principle and the method of repetitive memorisation. We then demonstrate how the Confucian teaching techniques used in the classroom result in contradictory processes of subject-making. Students are governed by the technologies of power in the disciplined classroom but are also encouraged to be the "master" of their own study according to the technologies of the self, so as to become autonomous learners. The revived Confucian education is encounteringen_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherFrench Centre for Research on Contemporary Chinaen_US
dc.relation.urlhttps://search.informit.org/doi/abs/10.3316/informit.489104141773933en_US
dc.subjectConfucian education revivalen_US
dc.subjectautonomous learneren_US
dc.subjectSubject Categories::X300 Academic studies in Educationen_US
dc.titleEducating the autonomous learner in a Confucian school: subjectivity, memorisation and dilemmaen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.identifier.journalChina perspectivesen_US
dc.date.updated2024-10-24T08:47:02Z
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