This book is a product of intercultural dialogues between Rainer Kokemohr from Germany and educational scholars from Taiwan, during a period of more than 15 years. When professor Kokemohr served as a part-time chair professor at the College of Education, NCCU, he had the opportunity to observe different schools and to dialogue with many scholars. Section One of the book presents discussions on pedagogical norms and goals. Section Two brings together articles that discuss educational goals in relation to concrete social interactions or special, pedagogically significant phenomena and structures that determine teaching-learning processes within educational institutions. In Section Three, the authors discuss the challenge of modern education in view of historical or life-historical educational conditions.
SECTION I: GENERAL REMARKS, OBSERVATIONS AND REFLECTIONS I.1 Symbiosophy and the Aesthetics of Improvisation: Inspiration on Boundary-Crossing from Zen Master Hui-Neng / Tsao-Lin Fong I.2 The Embodied Cognition as the Foundation of Imagination: The Clues Based on Kant’s Philosophy / Yung-Kang Hsu I.3 Competency-Based Education: Do the Ends Justify the Means? / Jason C. Chan, Pichun Wu
SECTION II: TOPICS, ISSUES AND ASPECTS OF SOCIAL INTERACTION IN EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS II.1 Does Linear Education Meet the Requirements of Complex Societies? / Rainer Kokemohr II.2 Teaching as Production of Assembly-Line: Classroom Interaction Analysis in a Junior High School / Shing-Shiang Ting, Ming-Shiang Ni II.3 Learning as Problem Solving: Foundations of a Humanist Pedagogy / Rainer Kokemohr II.4 Didactics as Dealing with Contingency in Teaching-Learning Interaction / Rainer Kokemohr II.5 Didactics: How to Plan a Good Lesson? / Rainer Kokemohr II.6 Some Basic Issues in the Teaching and Learning of History / Rainer Kokemohr II.7 A Localized and Meaningful Curriculum: Some Observations on Its Practical Meaning / Rainer Kokemohr II.8 Sociogenesis: The Impact of Culture on Children’s Development in Modern Societies / Rainer Kokemohr II.9 Reading Children: Exploring the World between Phantasy and Reality / Rainer Kokemohr
SECTION III: THE CHALLENGE OF MODERN EDUCATION IN VIEW OF SOME INSTITUTIONAL, HISTORICAL OR LIFE-HISTORICAL CONDITIONS III.1 The Transformation of Childhood: A Study of Preschool Teachers’ Professional Role-Formation from a Biographical Perspective / Ming-Shiang Ni III.2 The Transformation of a Teenager: A Biographical Perspective of a Transcendent Journey from Inner Conflict / Hsin-Yi Huang III.3 Community Colleges’ Course Design Orientation / Huang-Yao Hong, Guo-Tsai Hung, Hui-Ping Wu