Dialogues on the New Education (Works by Zhu Yongxin on Education Series)

by Zhu Yongxin

Overview

“The most important task of education is to teach children to be kind, to have a dream, and to possess the ability to learn.” --Zhu Yongxin

One of today’s leading education thinkers, Zhu Yongxin possesses a rare clarity about the purpose of education. Dialogues on the New Education is a collection of interviews with Professor Zhu on a wide array of important education issues.

These are truly dialogues. The interviewers are either highly qualified journalists or education experts. The result is more dynamic and informative than anything a typical question/answer format could provide. Dialogues on the New Education provides a level of insight into the subject you will find nowhere else. The 55 interviews in this book cover such topics as:

• The Educational Ideals of an Official and Scholar
• Being a Teacher as a Life-Long Identity
• The Foundational Ideas of the New Education Experiment
• Moral Education During Times of Social Transition
• The Importance of Education Research
• Promoting Humanism and a Reading-Focused Society
• The Critical Role of Parents in a Child’s Education
• Why Education Policymakers Should Listen to the Public

“Education should cultivate not only innovative talents and scientists but also applied skilled workers,” Yongxin writes. “But what’s more critical is to turn our students into qualified citizens.”

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780071848626
Publisher:	McGraw Hill LLC
Publication date:	01/09/2015
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	400
File size:	949 KB

About the Author

Zhu Yongxin is a member of the National People’s Congress (NPC) Standing Committee, vice chairman of China Association for Promoting Democracy (CAPD), and vice president of Chinese Society of Education (CSE). He also serves as a professor and PhD supervisor at Soochow University.

A sponsor of the New Education Experiment in China, Professor Zhu has won several awards for his influential work, including “60 great contributors in China’s Education of 60 years” (2009), “30th Anniversary of Reform and Opening Up: Person of the Year in China’s Education Area” (2008), “Top 10 News Figures in China’s Reform” (2007), and “Top 10 Elites in China’s Education” (2006).

Professor Zhu has written more than 400 articles on education both at home and abroad, and published over 30 books as well.

Table of Contents

Preface
Chapter 1 Dancing Even in Fetters
Chapter 2 An Idealist, but Also an Actor
Chapter 3 Watering the Roots of Flowers, Educating the Mind of People
Chapter 4 Education Needs a Significant Reform
Chapter 5 There is a Long Way to Go Before Educational Equality is Achieved
Chapter 6 Reading is the Password for Education
Afterword
References
Index
About the Author