On the Education of the Whole Person: Cross-Cultural Dialogue
On the Education of the Whole Person: Cross-Cultural Dialogue
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论全人教育:跨文化对话
DOI:
10.1080/00131857.2022.2098715
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发表时间:
2022
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2
通讯作者:
Naoko Saito and Tomohiro Akiyama
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作者:
Kobayashi M;Takakura M;Kakazu K;Gredzuk S;Masuzawa T;Kyan A;Ganaha Y;Endoh H;諏訪 英広・大天 真由美 ・田中真秀;Naoko Saito and Tomohiro Akiyama
Against the prevailing outcomes-based education and the instrumentalization of education, a movement has arisen towards holistic education. This aims to go beyond objective measurement of the outcomes of education in order to treat the student as a whole person. In this paper, we shall examine some strands of education in Japan which in some way or another feature the idea of the whole person. This includes the tradition of clinical pedagogy, which originated in Kyoto University, Yukichi Shitahodo’s educational anthropology (Kyoiku-Ningengaku), Kuniyoshi Obara’sZenjinEducation (the education of the whole person) and holistic education. Notwithstanding the fact that such education is benevolent in intention, it can be miseducative in some respects. In the light of this, and with some reference to criticism of the idea of the whole person, we shall point to an alternative vision of education of the whole person following Cavell’s Emersonian moral perfectionism – a perfectionism that is thoroughly anti-foundationalist and that transcends self-entrapment in circulatory discourse on the whole. In critical dialogue between the rich traditions of Japanese thought and the critical voice of liberalism raised from within the West, we hope to find a more nuanced answer to the question of how being a whole might make sense.