Description

• Title:
  European Humanities in the Perception of Chinese Students: A Reflection Based on A Personal Teaching Experience
• Creator:
  Untea, Ionut
• Description:
  As a young teacher and researcher, the prospective of introducing western philosophical themes to a public of students from a non-western country, came in 2016 as a once-in-a lifetime opportunity, which I met with great enthusiasm. However, as in any situation involving pre-conceived expectations, facing and dealing with the real situation on the ground opens up a pathway for a closer understanding of both the new culture explored, a perception of one’s own limits and the willingness to overcome them. The following lines are intended to cover the way my approach to teaching to a Chinese public has evolved from pre-conceptions and empty enthusiasm to an attitude of pedagogical creativity in identifying and presenting the key topics that would attract my students’ attention. As I will show, students’ expectations were to approach the western ideas not directly, but via a more complex process of being acquainted with the major historical and cultural movements in Europe and the western world. This meant the involvement in the teaching process of a wider number of elements taken not only from philosophy but from other humanistic disciplines.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  Prawa autorskie (c) 2019 Ethics in Progress
• Date:
  2019.05.30
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
• Language:
  English;
  eng
• Source:
  ETHICS IN PROGRESS; Vol. 10 No. 1 (2019); 41-53;
  Ethics in Progress; Tom 10 Nr 1 (2019); 41-53;
  2084-9257
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan
• Relation: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/eip/article/view/19054/18834
• Subject:
  humanities;
  Chinese identity;
  European identity;
  personal teaching experience
• Identifier: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/eip/article/view/19054
• Data provider:
  Platforma Otwartych Czasopism Naukowych UAM
• Can I use it?:
  seek permission
• Type:
  text