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Public Lecture | Liberal Arts and the Legacy of China’s Christian Universities

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Nov

The Public Lecture “Liberal Arts and the Legacy of China’s Christian Universities” will take place on 27 November at the Don Bosco Auditorium.

About the Talk:

The United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia celebrated its centennial last year. Founded in 1922 to support 13 Christian universities in China, it has reached out to universities throughout Asia since 1952 with a special vision for whole-person education through the Liberal Arts. In this presentation Ruth will share insights from a newly published book with 13 chapters by current scholars of history, sociology and education translated from Chinese. Highlighted themes include approaches to liberal arts education that integrated classical Chinese values with those coming from European and American traditions, architectural creations that embody a classical Chinese gestalt with Western features integrated in harmonious ways, and a curricular orientation towards serving the public good that gave attention to fields such as agriculture, health, social services and women’s studies. These will be set within an overview of interaction between Europe and China going back to the first encounters in the 7th century AD and the collaboration between Matteo Ricci and Xu Guangqi in the early 17th century.

About the Speaker:

Ruth HAYHOE is a professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto. She is currently an Adjunct Full Professor at the School of Education of the University of Saint Joseph. Her professional engagements in Asia have spanned 55 years, including Secondary School teacher at Heep Yunn School in Hong Kong (1967-1978), Foreign Expert at Fudan University, 1980-82, First Secretary for Education, Science and Culture at the Canadian Embassy in Beijing, 1989-1991, Visiting Professor at Nagoya University on a Japan Foundation fellowship in 1996, and Director of the Hong Kong Institute of Education, now the Education University of Hong Kong, 1997-2002, where she holds the title of President Emerita. Ruth has authored or edited more than a dozen books and published about 80 articles in refereed journals. Ruth has received many honors, including Honorary Fellow, University of London Institute of Education (1998), the Silver Bauhinia Star of the Hong Kong SAR Government (2002), Commandeur dans l’ordre des Palmes Académiques of the Government of France (2002) and an Honorary Doctorate from the HKIEd (2002). In 2011 she was made an Honorary Fellow of the Comparative and International Education Society and in 2012 she was appointed C J Koh Professor at the National Institute of Education, in Singapore. In 2015 she received the Mingyuan Prize for an Outstanding Contribution to Chinese Education Research and an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from the Open University of Hong Kong. In 2019 she was conferred an Honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters by Victoria University in Toronto and in 2020 she was awarded the David Wilson Award for Distinguished Service by the Comparative International Education Society of Canada.

Details:

Date: 27 November 2023 (Monday)
Time: 19:00 – 20:30 
Venue: Don Bosco Auditorium, University of Saint Joseph, Ilha Verde Campus
Language: English

Organised by: School of Education (SED) and Domingos Lam Center of Research in Education (DLCRE)

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