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Charlene Tan – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2024
Aimed at rethinking the concept of service learning, this article draws upon the philosophical thought of the neo-Confucian thinker Wang Yangming. The inquiry is directed at a perennial concern that the prevailing understandings of service learning may encourage patronisation and domination in the server coupled with subordination and…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Confucianism, Educational Philosophy, Educational Principles
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Charlene Tan; Priya Goel La Londe – Critical Studies in Education, 2024
This paper extends the dominant understandings of empathy -- as a trait, state, communication or relationship -- by conceptualising it as a virtue and as a tool to address anti-Asian hate crime. Drawing upon the writings of the Confucian philosopher Xunzi, this article interprets empathy as a personal quality that attests to one's moral…
Descriptors: Empathy, Antisocial Behavior, Crime, Asian Americans