Chan Teaching and Learning: An Aesthetic Analysis of Its Educational Import

Autor/inn/en	Meng, Lingqi; Uhrmacher, P. Bruce
Titel	Chan Teaching and Learning: An Aesthetic Analysis of Its Educational Import
Quelle	In: Asia Pacific Education Review, 15 (2014) 2, S.199-209 (11 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1598-1037
DOI	10.1007/s12564-014-9317-x
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Buddhism; Imagination; Sensory Experience; Risk; Learner Engagement; Perception; Active Learning; Lecture Method; Creative Thinking; Aesthetics; China + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Buddhismus; Sinnerfahrung; Risiko; Wahrnehmung; Aktives Lernen; Kreatives Denken; Ästhetik
Abstract	This study examines the sudden enlightenment sect of Chan (or Zen in Japanese terms) in order to understand various aspects of teaching and learning in the Buddhist tradition in China. To unravel Chan's educational import, we analyze its aesthetic features through a Western lens in order to highlight significant aspects of the teaching/learning process. Using connections, risk taking, imagination, sensory experience, perceptivity, and active engagement, a six-theme framework in the Western aesthetic education literature, we summarize five characteristics of Chan teaching and learning that specifically facilitates learners to be "actively engaged" and "connected" in their learning and modestly facilitates the learner's "sensory experience" and "imagination." We argue that Chan's teaching and learning do not enable learners to take risks or to become overly perceptive. These aesthetic features might make Chinese learners more able learners in a lecture-directed learning environment that is usually associated with ineffective learning in Western teaching and learning discourse. Lack of risk taking in Chan tradition might relate to the lack of creative thinking in China, which still needs more in-depth exploration. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10