Pedagogy of Life

Pedagogy of Life takes its readers through the echoing stories of the half-century, historical Cultural Revolution of China to the literate lifeworld today.

Autorentext

Rosa Hong Chen is a visiting scholar at Teachers College of Columbia University. She has studied in China, the United States, and Canada in the disciplines of educational philosophy, curriculum studies, linguistics, literature, literacy education, and performing arts. She is an accomplished artist, published poet, and philosopher of education.

Inhalt

Note on the Cover Image -Figures - Preface and Acknowledgments - An Echo of Silence - Prologue - Sentiment, Pathway, and Pedagogy - Life Stories, Currere, and Aspirations - Part I: In a Place, at a Time, with Kinship - Ebb and Flow: Relation of Incidents - Ties of Life and Death: Our Names and Naming - Names and Literacy: A Braiding of Two Strands - Part II: Life Sentiment and Literate Assimilation - The Weight of Names and Words - The Bearing of the Named - Connection and the Narrow Escape - Social Deprivation and Action - Part III: Pedagogy of Life - A Pedagogy of Necessity - A Pedagogy of Contingency - Postscript - Post-postscript - Index.