On the December 25,2020,Prof.Lu Jie,the Emeritus Professor and former Dean of the Faculty of Education at Nanjing Normal University passed away.The sudden news struck me and recalled my nearly 30 years’friendship wit...On the December 25,2020,Prof.Lu Jie,the Emeritus Professor and former Dean of the Faculty of Education at Nanjing Normal University passed away.The sudden news struck me and recalled my nearly 30 years’friendship with Prof.Lu since 1991,stirring up also my memories of pre-1949 Christian colleges of China,and the promotion of“education of love”at Ginling College and Nanjing Normal University,from the time of Prof.Wu Yifang,Prof.Minnie Vautrin,Prof.Tao Xingzhi and Prof.Lu Jie.In this paper,I shall recall the various meetings with Prof.Lu Jie,and how her life has inspired my re-thinking of the development of“education of love”in China.I shall relate especially her humanistic educational ideals,especially the“education for life”and“cultivating human beings”with Prof.Tao Xingzhi’s“education of love.”Their educational ideals reflected the humanistic education taught at the University of Nanking and Ginling College in the first half of 20th century China.Though the two colleges had brought in a Western style of education,they had exemplified good models of indigenization,especially regarding how humanistic education could become Sinifized in Chinese soil today.展开更多
Christian higher education(CHE)had been totally disappeared from the China mainland since the 1950s,and related studies only revived in the past 40 years since Deng Xiaoping’s reform and opening up policy in 1978.The...Christian higher education(CHE)had been totally disappeared from the China mainland since the 1950s,and related studies only revived in the past 40 years since Deng Xiaoping’s reform and opening up policy in 1978.The present paper is an attempt to report what had happened in the past 40 years,and to illustrate some significant contributions the resurgence of the study of CHE had made to the academia in the development of higher education in China.New forms of representation of CHE are found and new approaches to the study of CHE are also explored.展开更多
文摘On the December 25,2020,Prof.Lu Jie,the Emeritus Professor and former Dean of the Faculty of Education at Nanjing Normal University passed away.The sudden news struck me and recalled my nearly 30 years’friendship with Prof.Lu since 1991,stirring up also my memories of pre-1949 Christian colleges of China,and the promotion of“education of love”at Ginling College and Nanjing Normal University,from the time of Prof.Wu Yifang,Prof.Minnie Vautrin,Prof.Tao Xingzhi and Prof.Lu Jie.In this paper,I shall recall the various meetings with Prof.Lu Jie,and how her life has inspired my re-thinking of the development of“education of love”in China.I shall relate especially her humanistic educational ideals,especially the“education for life”and“cultivating human beings”with Prof.Tao Xingzhi’s“education of love.”Their educational ideals reflected the humanistic education taught at the University of Nanking and Ginling College in the first half of 20th century China.Though the two colleges had brought in a Western style of education,they had exemplified good models of indigenization,especially regarding how humanistic education could become Sinifized in Chinese soil today.
文摘Christian higher education(CHE)had been totally disappeared from the China mainland since the 1950s,and related studies only revived in the past 40 years since Deng Xiaoping’s reform and opening up policy in 1978.The present paper is an attempt to report what had happened in the past 40 years,and to illustrate some significant contributions the resurgence of the study of CHE had made to the academia in the development of higher education in China.New forms of representation of CHE are found and new approaches to the study of CHE are also explored.
