Abstract
This article briefly introduces and comments on the EPAT special issue ‘Philosophical reflections on modern education in Japan: strategies and prospects’ edited by Morimichi Kato. There are seven papers excluding the editor’s introductory essay. This special issue provides a unique approach to Japanese educational philosophy by offering and deliberating features and concepts peculiar to Japanese education.
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Ruyu Hung
Ruyu Hung is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy of Education at the National Chiayi University, Taiwan. Her academic interests are in the fields of philosophy of education, educational aesthetics and ethics with special approaches in deconstruction, phenomenology, ecological philosophy, and comparative studies. Ruyu Hung’s book, Education between Speech and Writing: Crossing the Boundaries of Dao and Deconstruction (2018, Routledge), won 2019 Philosophy of Society of Australasia (PESA) Book Award and 2018 Taiwan Educational Research Association (TERA) Book Award. Email: [email protected]