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Teaching and Education: the ways of Confucius
Abstract
A Chinese proverb has it that, “learning colors a man more than the deepest dye”, and indeed learning
and education is critical. Here, in this paper, the practitioner-academician author examines the various
teaching methods and ways of Confucius or Master Kung. Interestingly here, various vital don’ts of
teaching, and in fact, several gems of teaching methods, done the Masterly way, are highlighted. The
teaching methods, just to mention a few, discussed are to be the role model, to deliver and teach
according to the students’ needs, learn from others, generate stimulation and exude influence as well
as to love all and serve all.
... Character education is based on the goals of creating individuals who are able to act with grace, speak correctly and manifest integrity in all their activities (White and Warfa, 2011;Cheung and Lee, 2010). There is a dislike for sycophantic individuals, especially men who are into clever talk and are often pretentious in their desire to secure an audience (Cheng and Low, 2010). Confucius, at some point, found himself exposed to a society where values were skewed towards what he perceived to be undesirable ends. ...
... Confucius, at some point, found himself exposed to a society where values were skewed towards what he perceived to be undesirable ends. He noted how the actions of men no longer matched the various labels which were attached to them (Cheng and Low, 2010). He also noted how the rulers did not actually rule and the subjects did not actually serve; in other words, the titles and assigned roles did not actually mean anything. ...
... In the end, these students would not know the significance of learning and the benefits that their learning can bring for them. They may miss also the essential elements of education, sometimes discounting its importance and being unmotivated to pursue its ends (Cheng and Low, 2010). Teachers may also ignore the natural tendencies and interests of students and therefore, ignore what potential talents they have. ...
... It also creates much passion to teach, coach and guide one's students well. The teacher should thus have 'a loving heart', doing what the heart is set on (The Analects, Chapter V, verse 26; also cited in Low, 2010). ...
... All students, in most ways, are like his or her children; (s)he cares about all students. If a teacher has a big heart to care, show concern and even worry about all his or her students, (s)he can be considered to be a good teacher (Low, 2010) ...
... A sense of humor can help one become a successful teacher (Low, 2010). Be aware that one's sense of humor can, in fact, relieve tense classroom situations before they become disruptions. ...
Most corporate owners and leaders are successful teachers (also read as trainers) or coaches, and they take certain steps in their own way to pass along what they have learned to their people or employees. Teachers continue to learn. In this paper, the practitioner-researchers talk about how one can be a good teacher; they are asking questions or raising issues to find out more on how to be a good teacher. The various pointers, among other things, include: being an ever willing teacher, applying different strokes for different folks and giving students carrots and incentives (or giving them
something to hold onto) as well as applying a variety of teaching methods.
... Nonetheless, there is a need for the teacher to pitch his or her teaching of the students according to their needs; (s)he has to apply different strokes for different folks. There is a Chinese saying which goes like this, " Teach a person based on one's ability " (Low, 2010). ...
... A merry heart does good like a medicine. And a good sense of humor can help one become a successful teacher ( Ang, 2011: 1122; Low, 2010; Cruickshank, Jenkins and Metcalf, 2003), and Cattell, 1931 cited by Kyriacou (2009: 7) is one of the five most frequently reported key qualities of effective teachers. Be aware that one's great sense of humor wouldn't hurt; ...
Teachers continue to learn. Most corporate owners and leaders are successful teachers (also read as trainers/ course leaders) or coaches, and they take some steps in their own way to pass along what they have learned to their people or employees. In this paper, the practitioner-researcher talks about how one can be a successful teacher; he is basically raising issues to uncover more on how teachers can further their effectiveness. The selected pointers, among other things, include: being an ever willing, interested teacher, having an un-trapped mind and giving students carrots and incentives (or giving them something to hold onto) as well as applying a potpourri of teaching ways and methods.
... In Confucianism, learning and education is indeed critical Low, 2010a;2010b). Learning helps to up one's self-confidence. For Confucius, learning is critical for a person to be a gentleperson (junzi). ...
Life is certainly better when one lives with confidence. And in this article, the practitioner-academician examines the various ways of increasing one’s confidence via the Old Master’s teachings. This is truly a very interesting proposal and perspective since most people would not have thought of the Old Master as developing and nurturing one’s confidence.Among other things, the key Confucian ways of raising one’s confidence are: learning, thinking positively, living with one’s core Confucian values, developing a calm mind and building relationships, making friends as well as gaining the trust of our friends, family members, business associates and others. Of paramount importance, one is clean and of high integrity, and one undoubtedly stands tall.
Teaching effect is a core index for measuring the validity of teaching practices in universities. How to improve it in class? It is an important issue in educational reform. From students’ cognition perspective, the study analyzed students’ statements about the knowledge, personalities and behaviour of their teachers. Through the process of text analysis, the study summarized the common elements of teachers’ knowledge and personality as well as their impacts on teaching effects. A new theory, i.e. Intellectual Management for University Teacher (IMUT), was constructed. Results show that: At first, university students can definitely cognize and appraise their teachers’ knowledge and personalities; Second, an effective combination of knowledge and personality decides one teacher’s teaching effect, and; Finally, according to the feedback of students, the elements of teacher’s knowledge should include knowledge level and knowledge behaviour, and the elements of teacher’s personality could be summarized as personality trait and personalized behaviour. In order to improve teaching effects, university teachers are suggested to implement intellectual management, for realizing intellectual beauty through building a syncretic system which helps to develop knowledge and personality together.
This article assesses the official music scene in Pyongyang over a span of five dramatic years, surveying how changes in the field of music from 2009 to 2014 mirrored and in some cases presaged North Korean dynastic succession and political consolidation. The article draws upon a new abundance of performance data on North Korean musical groups, data which we argue is important but has largely been ignored or mischaracterized heretofore. The central crisis dealt with in the article is the decline and demise of Kim Jong-il, the architect of North Korea’s musical culture. In his final years, Kim Jong-il assented to the creation of a new leading musical group known as the Unhasu Orchestra, promoted a song (“Footsteps”) about his son’s succession, and was commemorated as a passing figure even while still alive (in the film Wish). This article reads the transition of power to the young Kim Jong-un in musical terms, revealing churn in the cultural sector. The text therefore advances questions about the role of music in the North Korean society generally, and will appeal to readers interested in North Korean culture, as well as to scholars of music and politics in general.
Traditionally, the Chinese educational system is shaped by teacher-centeredness, meaning that the teacher directs and controls the design of the overall educational objective and the educational process. However, in the past three decades, Chinese educational institutions have gradually made initiatives to transform their teachercentered educational approach into student-centered learning in order to enhance student learning motivation and learning outcome.
Early childhood education in Taiwan puts high value in cultivating young children's character education, especially for preschool curriculum guideline proposes that character education should starts as earlier as possible. Research focus on the importance of character education from early childhood education perspective; however, little study investigated the key factors of character education integrated into parent-child relationship, especially in multi-culture family. This study aims to explore the beauty of character education and its impact on young children's parent-child relationship. The purposive sampling of the research includes the young children's parents in the ten preschools adopting the program of character education integrated into family daily life for more than one year in the Southern Taiwan cities. Parents, early childhood education experts and teachers are interviewed and the questionnaire survey is further preceded. The study concludes that in terms of the influencing factors of character education integrated into parent-child relationship, the experts pay attention to Children's Character Cultivation within the evaluation dimensions in the second hierarchy, with the weight 0.426 about 42.6% of the overall weight. The following emphases are Parent-Child Relationship and then Parents Demography. From the investigation, Children's Character Cultivation is regarded as the most stressed dimension for character education integrated into preschool children's parent-child relationship in Taiwan. And with the conclusion that character education can deepen the bond between parents and children, as well as significant influence the preschool Children's Character Cultivation, and also, the preschool parents’ support and scaffolding in children's storytelling, play, music and arts serve as significant factors in preschool children's parent-child relationship.
In this qualitative research paper, the practitioner-academicians attempt to vigorously define the Confucian value of humility, its applications, uses and the benefits of the Confucian value of humility in terms of leading and managing people. Such a Confucian value indeed motivates,inspires and even supplies the followers and people with much leadership care and concern. The research methodology done is through semi-structured interviews with various business people in the Chinese communities in three selected South-east Asian countries, namely, Brunei, Malaysia and Singapore, the Confucian value of humility and its applications, uses and benefits are uncovered and discussed. The paper too interestingly reveals the various ways in which the Confucian value of humility gives the drive and inspiration to those who truly follow such a Confucian leader or the gentleperson (junzi).
To unlearn is to learn. More often than not, before people can learn something new, they have to
unlearn what they think they already know. In this paper, with the input of focus-groups, the
practitioner-author examines various ways of unlearning such as in Zen Buddhism, being detached
so as to learn in a good way. Some of the ways to unlearn include developing the un-trapped mind,
avoiding groupthink; asking questions and listening to criticisms.
Here, in this paper, the practitioner-academician examines Confucius' value of benevolence (ren) and its ways and applications of such value as well as examining the relevance, the benefits and what's in store for humanity when such a value is practiced to full extent. The ways and applications of such value, just to name a few, include setting one's heart on benevolence (ren), valuing people and respecting talents and empowering. Though some may criticize as being utopian or idealistic, such a value when put to practice can really mean doing a lot of goodness by every one and every business to others, and thus making the world a better place to live.
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