China through the Lens of Comparative Education The selected works of Ruth Hayhoe World Library of Educationalists Series

In the World Library of Educationalists series, international experts compile career-long collections of what they judge to be their finest pieces ? extracts from books, key articles, salient research findings, major theoretical and practical contributions ? so the world can read them in a single, manageable volume. Readers will be able to follow the themes and strands and see how their work contributes to the development of the field.

Ruth Hayhoe is a distinguished scholar in comparative education and higher education, as well as one of the most highly regarded experts on Chinese education in the world. Extremely well respected throughout China, she has authored about 75 articles and book chapters, as well as several books on Chinese education and East-West relations in education.

This selection of 15 of her most representative papers and chapters documents the most significant works of her research on Chinese education, higher education and comparative education. The three sections cover:

• comparative education and China
• higher education and history
• religion, culture and education.

The collection not only helps foreign scholars understand Chinese education development in its cultural context comprehensively and systemically, but also provides a fresh point of view for education practitioners and policy makers in China.

Podcast of Professor Ruth Hayhoe's interview at New Books Network discussing this book and her distinguished career: http://newbooksnetwork.com/ruth-hayhoe-china-through-the-lens-of-comparative-education-the-selected-works-of-ruth-hayhoe-routledge-2015/

Part I: Comparative Education and China

1. A Chinese Puzzle

2. Language in Comparative Education: Three Strands

3. Redeeming Modernity

4. Ten Lives in Mine: Creating Portraits of Influential Chinese Educators

5. The Use of Ideal Types in Comparative Education: A Personal Reflection

6. Philosophy and Comparative Education: What Can We Learn from East Asia?

Part II: Higher Education and History

7. Universities, Cultural Identity, and Democracy: Some Canada-China Comparisons

8. An Asian Multiversity? Comparative Reflections on the Transition to Mass Higher Education in East Asia

9. Lessons from the Chinese Academy

10. China’s Universities, Cross-Border Education and the Dialogue among Civilizations

11. The Idea of a University of Education

Part III: Religion, Culture and Education

12. A Chinese Catholic Philosophy of Higher Education in Republican China

13. Christianity and Cultural Transmission

14. Hong Kong’s Potential for Global Educational Dialogue: Retrospective and Vision

15. A Bridge Too Far? Comparative Reflections on St. Paul and Confucius

Ruth Hayhoe is Professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Canada.