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Prof. Wu Zongjie Invited to Give a Speech at 2007 Singapore International Pedagogical Conference

date:2010-10-28

Prof. Wu Zongjie Invited to Give a Speech at 2007 Singapore International Pedagogical Conference

 June 11th, 2007

Prof. Wu Zongjie of SIS was invited by Centre for Research in Pedagogy and Practice of Singapore National Institute of
Education to give a speech at the 2007 International Conference, and the theme of the conference was “Redesigning Pedagogy:
Culture, Knowledge and Understanding”.

The topic of Prof. Wu’s speech was “Recovering the language of Tao: Cultural Transformation of Chinese
Pedagogical Discourse”. And the content of the report aimed at how to understand the discourse feature of the eastern
pedagogical tradition and how its pedagogical values were developed under globalization. He analyzed the pedagogical
discourse feature of
Analects of Confucius from the view of western
linguistic philosophy, and then scanned the
transformation of the culture of the modern Chinese pedagogical discourse and its aftereffect. And he tried to present the
forms of multicultural discourse of knowledge in different cultural traditions, and clarify the possible misunderstanding of
modern discourse for the Confucianism pedagogy.

More than 1600 scholars and teachers from over 30 countries had attended the conference. Before he came back to
Hang Zhou, Prof. Wu Zongjie was invited to give two academic lectures respectively at English department of Hong Kong
Polytechnic University
and School of Foreign Language of Shenzhen University.

 

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