Background/Purpose: While Neo-Confucianism has been widely studied as a philosophical and political tradition, its educational implications in Vietnamese history remain underexplored. This study examines the pedagogical legacy of Lê Quý Ðôn, an 18th-century Vietnamese scholar, with a focus on how his writings and institutional roles reflect…

Rules are often a taken-for-granted norm in education. In many schools, rules have become synonymous with behavior management systems, such as Positive Behavioral Intervention Supports (PBIS) and Responsive Classroom. In this paper, we draw upon Foucault's conceptions of governmentality and discourse as well as notions of hidden curriculum to…

School environments in Finland are changing from traditional classrooms towards more flexible architectures. This change invites designers and commercial organizations to take part in re-thinking these environments by creating narratives of desirable educational environments. Their comprehensive furniture solutions promise flexible entities,…

The purpose of Jewish education is language acquisition in its broad and metaphorical sense. More precisely, Jewish education should create the conditions for the development of the capacity to produce language. Or more colloquially, Jewish education should help students become speakers of Jewish language. This article defends this idea,…

The 1995 Thai Education Revolution, led by His Excellency Mr. Sukavich Rangsitpol, has been widely recognized both nationally and internationally as a pivotal milestone in human capital development and educational reform rooted in the principle of People-Centered Development. This article aims to compile, analyze, and synthesize empirical evidence…

This paper draws attention to three risks associated with endorsing authenticity as an overall value in education--"essentialism, narcissism," and "relativism." These concerns mimic debates from the 1970s and 1980s, when both conservatives and progressives wrestled with the cultural fallout of the 1960s political movements. The…

It is well within the capacity of a wealthy nation like the United States to provide high-quality education for all its citizens. The resources exist to ensure that every child, regardless of background, has access to excellent educational opportunities. Yet, in practice, our educational systems, particularly admissions to selective schools, are…

The study used a correlational design based on a cause-and-effect relationship among philosophy of education dispositions, critical reading self-efficacy perceptions, and curriculum literacy perceptions. Five theoretical models were proposed in light of the theories and research explaining the relationships between the variables. In addition,…

This study explored integrating Sufficiency Economy Philosophy (SEP) into Thai secondary education to assess teaching challenges, students' cognitive understanding, and behavioral changes aligned with sustainable living principles. Conducted in three phases, it involved 30 lower secondary students from Jaturamitwittayakarn School in Khon Kaen…

Contemporary anarchism centers around three tenets: (1) a constant challenge of and resistance to all forms of domination, (2) so-called "prefigurative politics," in which all decisions are made in a manner that is consistent with a set of non-hierarchical values such as equality, decentralization, and voluntary cooperation, (3) a focus…

This edited volume examines the decolonization of worldviews and ways of knowing in education and educational policy. It critically challenges the Western interpretation of epistemology and ontology, providing a platform for contributors to demonstrate how concepts of decolonization, knowledge and worldviews are understood, as well as the impact…

Across the globe there has been a significant resurgence of interest in Froebel's philosophy in practice and Scotland is a front-runner in its systemic adoption of a Froebelian approach. This book offers a never-before-seen glimpse into Scotland's world-leading community of Froebel-inspired early childhood practice. Liberated by national guidance,…

As a response to the pedagogical paradoxes of subjectivity and intersubjectivity, this article proposes nonaffirmative school didactic theory as a comprehensive theoretical framework for understanding educative teaching for Bildung in the context of comprehensive education. This approach conceptualizes curriculum work, teaching, leadership, and…

Much of the literature exploring Chinese international student engagement with critical thinking in Western universities draws on reductive essentialisations of 'Confucianism' in efforts to explain cross-cultural differences. In this paper I review literature problematising these tendencies. I then shift focus from inferences about how philosophy…

This article presents the results of an in-depth analysis of ten texts written by ten-year-old pupils during a religious education (RE) lesson about Jesus' parables. The texts from the pupils' notebooks were analysed with passages from the RE textbook and the teacher's handbook to explore how these books influenced the pupils' texts. The main…