IsisCB Explore

Article ID: CBB282177476

The Theoretical Foundations of Feng Shui and Science Education in China (2021)

Zhang, Meifang (Author)
Liu, Bing (Author)

Science and Education
Volume: 30
Issue: 6
Pages: 1473-1490

URI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11191-021-00241-y

DOI: 10.1007/s11191-021-00241-y

Outside Links

WorldCat

Google Scholar

JSTOR

Academia.edu

Public policy East Asia, civilization and culture Public understanding of science Epistemology Traditional knowledge Science education and teaching Feng shui 21st century China

The study investigates in the Benchmark for Scientific Literacy of Chinese Citizens. The background of issuing the Benchmark, its procedure, and contents are analyzed; the key for analysis revolves around the huge debate triggered by the Benchmark on Chinese internet. The debate can be traced to historical discussions in China, regarding the relation between science and humanity, the boundary of science, and the goals for science education. We recognize that in the anxiety for modernization since 1840s in China, the gap between science and humanity studies persists; scientism still dominates the dialogue. Instead, we value pluralism in science and scientific literacy, and emphasize locality as a framework in understanding and assessing traditional Chinese knowledge and practices, including yin-yang theory, the five phases theory, and feng shui. We propose that good science education aims at eliminating scientism, enriching public understandings on the history of science, the culture, and philosophy of science.

...More

Included in

Article Michael R. Matthews (2021) Feng Shui in Science Programmes. Science and Education (pp. 1319-1332). unapi

Citation URI

https://data.isiscb.org/isis/citation/CBB282177476/

Citations Indexes

Similar Citations

Article Michael John Paton; (2021)
Science and Fengshui (/isis/citation/CBB166915252/)

Book Michael R. Matthews; (2020)
Feng Shui: Teaching About Science and Pseudoscience (/isis/citation/CBB856495335/)

Article Íñigo Ongay de Felipe; (2021)
The Universality of Science and Traditional Chinese Medicine (/isis/citation/CBB491161982/)

Article Damian Fernandez-Beanato; (2021)
Feng Shui and the Demarcation Project (/isis/citation/CBB888062029/)

Article Shobita Parthasarathy; (2022)
How to Be an Epistemic Trespasser (/isis/citation/CBB968694595/)

Article Burgess, Michael M.; (2014)
From “Trust Us” to Participatory Governance: Deliberative Publics and Science Policy (/isis/citation/CBB001420046/)

Article Michael R. Matthews; (2021)
Feng Shui in Science Programmes (/isis/citation/CBB185813060/)

Article Wendel, Paul J.; (2011)
Object-Based Epistemology at a Creationist Museum (/isis/citation/CBB001032764/)

Article Jinwoong Song; Jieun Chun; Jiyeon Na; (2021)
Why People Trust Something Other than Science (/isis/citation/CBB208786178/)

Article Simonetta Milani; Massimo Muccioli; (2021)
Teoria del respiro tra medicina e spiritualità nella tradizione della medicina cinese (/isis/citation/CBB233444751/)

Article Li, Zhen; (2006)
Study on the Stone-working Skills of Traditional Chinese Architecture During and Before the Northern and Southern Dynasties (/isis/citation/CBB001020790/)

Thesis Daoine S. Bachran; (2016)
From Recovery to Discovery: Ethnic American Science Fiction and (Re)creating the Future (/isis/citation/CBB344343231/)

Article Wyatt, Geoffrey; Stephenson, Toner; Stevenson, Toner; Hamacher, Duane W.; (2014)
Dreamtime Astronomy: Development of a New Indigenous Program at Sydney Observatory (/isis/citation/CBB001451561/)

Article Forbes, Curtis; (2011)
Science and Public Controversy: Editor's Introduction (/isis/citation/CBB001220690/)

Book Judith Farquhar; Lili Lai; (2021)
Gathering Medicines: Nation and Knowledge in China’s Mountain South (/isis/citation/CBB861019370/)

Article Xu, Zelin; (2002)
Takebe Katahiro's Epistemology of Mathematics (/isis/citation/CBB000340041/)

Article Hadrien Macq; Élise Tancoigne; Bruno J. Strasser; (2020)
From Deliberation to Production: Public Participation in Science and Technology Policies of the European Commission (1998–2019) (/isis/citation/CBB505305997/)

Article Yli-Kauhaluoma, Sari; Hänninen, Hannu; (2014)
Tale Taming Radioactive Fears: Linking Nuclear Waste Disposal to the “Continuum of the Good” (/isis/citation/CBB001420065/)

Article Vincent, Bernadette Bensaude; (2014)
The Politics of Buzzwords at the Interface of Technoscience, Market and Society: The Case of “Public Engagement in Science” (/isis/citation/CBB001420060/)

Article Rijswoud, Erwin van; (2014)
Shifting Expert Configurations and the Public Credibility of Science: Boundary Work and Identity Work of Hydraulic Engineers (1980--2009) (/isis/citation/CBB001420419/)

Comments

{{ comment.created_by.username }} on {{ comment.created_on | date:'medium' }}