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  1. Humanist but not Radical: The Educational Philosophy of Thiruvalluvar Kural.Devin K. Joshi - 2021 - Studies in Philosophy and Education 40 (2):183-200.
    Humanist ideas in education have been promoted by both Western thinkers and classical wisdom texts of Asia. Exploring this connection, I examine the educational philosophy of an iconic ancient Tamil text, the Thiruvalluvar Kural, by juxtaposing it with a contemporary humanist classic, Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed. As this comparative study reveals, both texts offer humanist visions of relevance to education, politics, and society. Notably, however, the Kural takes what might be described as a more mainstream humanist stance vis-à-vis (...)
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  • Comparative philosophy of education: Reading Zehou Li (李泽厚)’s philosophy in a postcolonial time.Flora Liuying Wei & Penny Enslin - 2022 - Educational Philosophy and Theory 54 (14):2469-2479.
    This article considers a postcolonial approach to comparative philosophy of education as comprising four key features: ethnography, translation, hybridity, and critique. This conception of comparative philosophy of education is first located in the postcolonial context that demands sensitivity to the ongoing dangers of orientalism. Each of these four identified aspects of comparative philosophy of education is illustrated with reference to the comparative work of a prominent contemporary Chinese philosopher, Zehou Li (李泽厚). It concludes with some observations about the challenges that (...)
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