A webinar was held by CERC on 28 October, 2022 entitled “Imagining and configuring social-emotional learning alternatively: What Confucianism and Daoism might inspire us to do?” This seminar was presented by Yun You, Associate Professor of Education at East China Normal University, and chaired by Yanping Fang, Associate Professor of Nanyang Technological University’s National Institute of Education.

Below is the abstract and poster for your information.

Abstract

Taking the recently-popularising social-emotional learning as an illustrative example, this talk attempts to move beyond the ‘universal applicability’ of Western theories to non-Western societies, while not falling into the stereotypical ‘East-West’ dichotomy. As an alternative, classic Confucianism and Daoism, echoing many other indigenous worldviews, may inspire us to reconceptualise emotional learning with the focus on ‘interrelatedness-cum-uniqueness’ (‘关联-独特性’) in achieving social-ecological harmonisation and wellbeing. The discussion builds on the speaker’s related publication in the Educational Philosophy and Theory.

Poster

The seminar was joined by CERC members, scholars and research students based in Hong Kong, Mainland China, Singapore and Japan.