The Art of Teaching in Confucianism-Informed by Analects

Philosophy and Culture 38 (6):21-35 (2011)
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For a long time, the teaching of those who taught the learning and teaching, almost all tend to approach to study psychology in this direction, will teach the use of teaching and learning theory in teaching situations; and general scholars in the field of education also tend to put greater emphasis on teaching personality and behavior and attitudes of the research, hoping to understand the excellent teaching quality and teaching those who teach what qualities need to have in order to focus on recipients of learning, and How to encourage recipients of learning to improve teaching performance-based, relatively neglected teaching in the philosophical orientation. Among them, more rarely thinking about how to make the recipients of teaching and learning activities through the formation of aesthetic experience, how to make teaching a more artistic spirit. Therefore, in this context of thinking, this paper aims to Confucian teaching art for the interpretation of the spirit, and the "Analects of Confucius' theory of; to analyze their practice in theory to explore the feasibility of educational activities. A view to promote the teaching and those who engaged in teaching, not only benefit their teaching as effective teaching, more teaching into their kind of teaching art to beauty of the whole teaching and learning activities. The studies on the tutors 'teaching and the tutees' learning have for long been done through the psychological approach. Based on this approach, the tutors apply the theories about teaching and learning to the teaching situations, and most scholars in the field of teaching put more emphasis on the researches about the tutors 'personalities, behaviors and attitudes in wishes to understand the qualities of good tutors and the attributes required of them. In this manner, these scholars are able to focus on the tutees' learning and on how to improve the effect of teaching through encouraging the tutees' learning, as they relatively ignore the philosophical approach to teaching. Moreover, even fewer scholars think seriously about how to create aesthetic experience for the tutees through teaching activities and how to make teaching more artistic. Therefore, in this spirit, this article is meant to interpret the spirit of the Confucian art of teaching as informed by Analects and inquire hereby the feasibility of fulfilling this spirit in educational activities. It is our expectation that tutors can not only make their teaching effective but also turn it into an art of teaching, making the whole activities of teaching aesthetic

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