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UCCA Beijing2015.10.17
Mercator Salon XIX: What Can Be Achieved By Education / Upbringing?
2015.10.17
15:00-17:00
Unlike in Europe, where recent findings in genetic and brain research among other things have raised once again the question of the biological determinism of humans and sparked doubts about their fundamental "educability", the belief in the virtually unlimited power of education is deeply rooted in Chinese culture. Confucianism is in many respects an educational ideology and believes in the absolute educability of everyone. Doubts about the omnipotence of education are hardly expressed at all in China and tend to meet with incomprehension. Chinese parents are firmly convinced that the choice of the "right school" will have a crucial bearing on the fate of their children, and are therefore willing to make almost any sacrifice in terms of time or money to ensure that they receive the best available education. They continue to give their children authoritative educational advice for every life situation, even well into adulthood.
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Speakers
Prof. Dr. Eckart Liebau (UNESCO-Chair in Arts and Culture in Education, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and Chairman of the Council for Arts and Culture in Education in Germany)
Prof. Dr. Eckart Liebau graduated in 1974 in pedagogy, sociology, political science and history at Goettingen and Muenchen. He received his PhD in pedagogy in Goettingen in 1979. Between 1988 and 1992 Prof. Liebau was awarded the Heisenberg-Scholarship of the DFG (Award of the German Research Foundation) (University of Tuebingen). He has chaired the pedagogy department at the Institute of Education, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg between 1992 and 2014. Since 2010 he is UNESCO-Chair in Arts and Culture in Education, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and since 2013 the Chairman of the Council for Arts and Culture in Education in Germany.
Liu Jia (Dean of Psychology, Vice Director of National Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal University)
Liu Jia, professor, PhD supervisor, Dean of School of Psychology, Vice Director of National Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal University. Bachelor and Master of Department of Psychology, Peking University. Ph.D. of Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences (cognitive neuroscience), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Winner of National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, National Natural Science Foundation of China; recipient of Hundred Talent Program, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Fulbright Visiting Scholar, USA; "Cheung Kong Scholar" Chair Professor, Ministry of Education of the PRC. Mr. Liu is the editor of many academic journals. He has published 50 academic papers in international journals, hosted a number of national major and key programs, and won the First Prize of Natural Science Award of the Ministry of Education. He has won many awards for excellent and good courses and grand prizes for teaching results.
Moderator
Prof. Huang Liaoyu（Peking University）
Organizer
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