Introduction
SECTION I: GENERAL REMARKS, OBSERVATIONS AND REFLECTIONS
I.1 Symbiosophy and the Aesthetics of Improvisation: Inspiration on Boundary-Crossing from Zen Master Hui-Neng / Tsao-Lin Fong
I.2 The Embodied Cognition as the Foundation of Imagination: The Clues Based on Kant’s Philosophy / Yung-Kang Hsu
I.3 Competency-Based Education: Do the Ends Justify the Means? / Jason C. Chan, Pichun Wu
SECTION II: TOPICS, ISSUES AND ASPECTS OF SOCIAL INTERACTION IN EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS
II.1 Does Linear Education Meet the Requirements of Complex Societies? / Rainer Kokemohr
II.2 Teaching as Production of Assembly-Line: Classroom Interaction Analysis in a Junior High School / Shing-Shiang Ting, Ming-Shiang Ni
II.3 Learning as Problem Solving: Foundations of a Humanist Pedagogy / Rainer Kokemohr
II.4 Didactics as Dealing with Contingency in Teaching-Learning Interaction / Rainer Kokemohr
II.5 Didactics: How to Plan a Good Lesson? / Rainer Kokemohr
II.6 Some Basic Issues in the Teaching and Learning of History / Rainer Kokemohr
II.7 A Localized and Meaningful Curriculum: Some Observations on Its Practical Meaning / Rainer Kokemohr
II.8 Sociogenesis: The Impact of Culture on Children’s Development in Modern Societies / Rainer Kokemohr
II.9 Reading Children: Exploring the World between Phantasy and Reality / Rainer Kokemohr
SECTION III: THE CHALLENGE OF MODERN EDUCATION IN VIEW OF SOME INSTITUTIONAL, HISTORICAL OR LIFE-HISTORICAL CONDITIONS
III.1 The Transformation of Childhood: A Study of Preschool Teachers’ Professional Role-Formation from a Biographical Perspective / Ming-Shiang Ni
III.2 The Transformation of a Teenager: A Biographical Perspective of a Transcendent Journey from Inner Conflict / Hsin-Yi Huang
III.3 Community Colleges’ Course Design Orientation / Huang-Yao Hong, Guo-Tsai Hung, Hui-Ping Wu
Index