Written over two and a half millennia ago, the Xueji (On Teaching and Learning) is one of the oldest and most comprehensive works on educational philosophy and teaching methods, as well as a consideration of the appropriate roles of teachers and students. The Xueji was included in the Liji (On Ritual), one of the Five Classics that became the heart of the educational system during China's imperial era, and it contains the ritual protocols adopted by the Imperial Academy during the Han dynasty. Chinese Philosophy on Teaching and Learning provides a new translation of the Xueji along with essays exploring this work from both Western and Chinese perspectives. Contributors examine the roots of educational thought in classical Chinese philosophy, outline similarities and differences with ideas rooted in classical Greek thought, and explore what the Xueji can offer educators today.

Xu Di is Professor of Educational Foundations at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa and the author of A Comparison of the Educational Ideas and Practices of John Dewey and Mao Zedong in China. Hunter McEwan is Professor of Education at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa and the coeditor (with Kieran Egan) of Narrative in Teaching, Learning, and Research.

Acknowledgments

Introduction
Xu Di, Hunter McEwan, and Yang Liuxin

Section One: Translation

On Teaching and Learning (Xueji )
Translated by Xu Di, Yang Liuxin, Hunter McEwan, and Roger T. Ames

Section Two: Essays

1. On Teaching and Learning (Xueji ): Setting the Root in Confucian Education
Roger T. Ames

2. The Teaching and Learning Principles of Xueji ( ) in the Educational Practice of the World Today
Xu Di

3.Conduct, Method, and Care of the Soul: A Comparison of Pedagogies in Confucian and Western Thought
Hunter McEwan

4. The Ideas of "Educating" and "Learning" in Confucian Thought
Chen Lai

5. The Classical Image of Confucian Teachers from the Analects and Xueji Yang Liuxin and Yang Jing
Translated by Xu Di

6. Confucius on the Concept of Study: What Can We Learn from Him?
Qin Wei Hong

7. Uniting Content Learning and Character Development with Self-Reflection: Xueji's Implications for Reenvisioning Science Education
Mary Chang

8. Pedagogies of a President: Obama as a Twenty-First-Century Junzi
Gay Garland Reed

List of Contributors
Index