Ethics of Becoming a Good Teacher - In Conversation With Aristotle and Confucius

This book explores Aristotelian and Confucian wisdom traditions to understand education and what counts as a good teacher in an embodied dialogic approach.

List of contents

1. A Moral Quest of Teaching. 2. Why Do We Educate? Eudaimonia and Dao. 3. What Do We Educate? Phronesis, Philia and Ren. 4: How Do We Educate? Techne and Liuyi. 5. Becoming A Good Teacher Does Not Come That Easily. 6. Post-Pandemic Teaching Reimagined.

About the author

Dr. Ying Ma is currently an Instructor at Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Canada. She used to be a high school teacher in Beijing, China for seven years prior to pursuing her graduate study at UBC. She has rich cross-cultural teaching and research experience in diverse settings. Her research interest includes teacher education, comparative research, narrative inquiry, teacher identity, philosophy of education, ethics, and curriculum studies.

Product details

• Authors: Ying Ma, Ying (Kwantlen Polytechnic University Ma
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.04.2025
• EAN: 9781032457505
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3245750-5
• No. of pages: 138
• Series: Studies in Curriculum Theory Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; EDUCATION / General, EDUCATION / Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects, Ethics & moral philosophy, teacher training, Philosophy & theory of education, Ethics and moral philosophy, Philosophy and theory of education, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, Non-Western philosophy, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500