The Cadence of Nature for Educating: Uncovering a Path to Knowing in a Comparative Study of Daoism and Lost Gospels

Autor/in	Maki, Wilma J.
Titel	The Cadence of Nature for Educating: Uncovering a Path to Knowing in a Comparative Study of Daoism and Lost Gospels
Quelle	In: Educational Philosophy and Theory, 51 (2019) 12, S.1216-1226 (11 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0013-1857
DOI	10.1080/00131857.2018.1526670
Schlagwörter	Religion; Philosophy; Creativity; Behavior; Asian Culture; Western Civilization; Educational Methods; Natural Resources; Christianity + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Philosophie; Kreativität; Educational method; Erziehungsmethode; Natural Ressource; Natürliche Ressource; Christentum
Abstract	This article compares the two worldviews of Daoism and selected lost gospels, and considers the pedagogical implications. It explores their core concepts and how each applies these concepts to define human beings in their world. The comparative analysis shows that they share a view of a process of becoming that defines how humans know and the nature of reality. Interdependence and impermanence, descriptors of nature, are the core concepts. Humans, as part of nature, direct becoming by aligning with the core concepts through the removal of unnatural influences. In alignment, they are in a state searching for definition and open to creation, enacting a different way of constructing meaning and interpreting their world. The similarities found between Daoism and a lost mode of thought in Western cultures further characterize the process. It suggests that this path to becoming was lost in the process of modernization, raising the questions of what the totality of human potential entails, and how we might fulfill it in educating. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01