Infusing Healing Energy into Education: Gifts from Daoist, Buddhist, and Confucian Insights (Current Perspectives on Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhism, and Education)

The unprecedented crises that the contemporary educational world and global society are facing, intricately interwoven with traumas of human tragedies and eco-disasters, call for responses based upon the awareness of the connectedness within, between, and among individuals, groups, nations, and our shared planetary environment.We desperately need to heal, to heal from the injuries of wars, dominations, and polarizations, and to heal education’s instrumental disconnections from its own existential roots.It is in this context that wisdoms of Daoism, Buddhism, and Confucianism with their abundant and diverse practices of healing are approached in this volume as gifts to contemporary educational thoughts and praxis.In these wisdom traditions, healing is a holistic, ongoing process physically, psychologically, philosophically and spiritually to integrative pathways. This book, through engaging in intercultural, transdisciplinary, and international conversations and dialogues, intends to syn