The Postsecular Turn in Education: Lessons from the Mindfulness Movement and the Revival of Confucian Academies

Wu, Jinting; Wenning, Mario

doi:10.1007/s11217-016-9513-8

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“…Due to the dominance of Western cultural hegemony brought about by globalisation, governments tend to adopt curriculum models that are prominent in ECCE (Yang and Li, 2019; Wu and Wenning, 2016). Global influences affect the exchange between the exo- and meso-systems resulting in the adoption and adaptation of curriculum models in the country’s national curricula and frameworks for ECCE.…”

Section: Western Curriculum Modelsmentioning

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Infant-toddler care in Singapore: Journey towards quality

Perisamy

2020

Policy Futures in Education

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In Singapore, early childhood care and education has evolved according to the nation’s needs since its independence in 1965. From a welfare scheme to custodial care, early childhood care and education is now recognised as a critical part of children’s learning and development. Over the years, the government has progressively implemented policies to raise the quality of early childhood care and education and while increased efforts have been effective, there is still a gap between policy and practice. This article reviews the policies and frameworks throughout the history of early childhood care and education, with a focus on infant toddler care and examines some of the alignment and gaps. It identifies two key areas for improvement – staff to child ratio and teacher quality for quality infant toddler care. In the current staff to child ratio, an ‘educarer’ oversees 5 children between 2 and 18 months. This indicates that the educarer needs to be well trained for this role to cater to a wide range of learning and developmental needs. However, the quality of teacher training has been disparate and was only harmonised in 2017. This suggests that the quality of educarers is still uneven in the sector. In terms of qualifications, educarers only need to fulfil the minimum level of teacher certification, which means that the youngest children in their most formative years are being taught and cared for by the least qualified educators ( Bull and Bautista, 2018 ). Cognisant of these issues, this article proposes recommendations to address issues of manpower allocation and teacher quality.

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Section: Western Curriculum Modelsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Infant-toddler care in Singapore: Journey towards quality

Perisamy

2020

Policy Futures in Education

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“…Evidence has been building since the 1990s suggesting a link between mindfulness interventions and increased wellbeing and cognitive performance (Creswell 2017). Wu and Wenning (2016) maintain that the mindfulness movement has gained particular strength from the perceived crisis of modern childhood, especially in the industrialised West. Mindfulness training has been used in the classroom to improve wellbeing and resilience, to reduce stress and enhance students' capacity for learning (e.g.…”

Section: Mindfulness and The Artsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Creativity through mindfulness: The Arts and Wellbeing in Education (AWE) professional learning programme

Southern

2020

International Journal of Education Through Art

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This article uses findings from a case study of an arts/education professional learning programme in Wales to construct a definition of creativity that reflects on and contributes to debates around the concept, and its value within education. The programme Arts and Wellbeing in Education (AWE) focused on supporting school teachers’ well-being through creative practice. The research comprised a participatory methodology that sought to explore the circulating discourse around the key concepts of creativity and well-being in order to identify how the team leading the programme conceptualized the value of creativity, and how this was enacted. The findings point to a notion of creativity that is an inclusive, carnival experience that may improve well-being through mindful approaches to creative practice.

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“…Therefore, the feasibility and applicability of integrating Confucian moral education ideas into the ideological and political education of college students are explored [6][7]. There are certain differences and incompatibilities between Confucian moral education thought and the psychological characteristics and educational needs of modern college students [8][9]. How to find the best combination of Confucian moral education thought and college students' ideological education is an important topic of current research.…”

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An analysis of the applicability of integrating Confucian moral education ideas into the Civic Education of college students under the perspective of cultural communication

2023

Applied Mathematics and Nonlinear Sciences

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This paper firstly constructs the mutual mechanism between the characteristics of Confucian moral education thought, and college students’ Civic Education and the influence mechanism of college students’ psychological characteristics on the integration of Confucian moral education thought. Then a logistic regression model of the integration of Confucian moral education into Civic Education was established, and data collection, pre-processing, missing data processing and parameter estimation steps were carried out. Finally, the results of the application of Confucian moral education thought in Civic Education were analyzed, including the analysis of the factors influencing the integration effect and the analysis of the results of psycho-social cognitive factors on the optimization of moral education strategies. The results show that the interaction coefficients of the three regression models of the exposure to Confucian moral education ideas and the effect of ideological and political education dissemination among college students are 0.7325, 0.4817, and 0.3885, respectively, and the coefficients of the interaction terms are all significant at the level of 0.05. The research in this paper has some reference value for promoting the development of moral education and the transmission of cultural values.

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The Postsecular Turn in Education: Lessons from the Mindfulness Movement and the Revival of Confucian Academies

Cited by 19 publications

References 31 publications

Infant-toddler care in Singapore: Journey towards quality

Infant-toddler care in Singapore: Journey towards quality

Creativity through mindfulness: The Arts and Wellbeing in Education (AWE) professional learning programme

An analysis of the applicability of integrating Confucian moral education ideas into the Civic Education of college students under the perspective of cultural communication

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