Tao of Life Stories: Chinese Language, Poetry, and Culture in Education FROM THE PUBLISHER
The Tao of Life Stories explores curriculum as lifelong learning through Chinese women immigrants' cross-cultural experiences. In answer to Walt Whitman's call for strangers to speak, this book creates an extraordinary voice through its stories, poetry, and artistry. The multicultural and global context of the new millennium challenges teachers to better our understanding of differences at personal, professional, and conceptual levels. Do we all, teachers and students alike, bring unique experiences to our classrooms? How do we acknowledge and learn from our experiences across cultural borders? Philosophically, practically, vicariously, and artistically, this book promises to engage the reader in a postmodern crosscultural and global education.
SYNOPSIS
Before migrating to North America, Li (teacher education, California State U., Long Beach) experienced the Cultural Revolution and taught at universities in China. In this volume, she employs both prose narrative and poetry to recount her cross-cultural experiences along with those of other Chinese women immigrants. Taoist philosophy is used throughout the text as a framework for understanding life in the midst of perplexity and contradiction. The volume is not indexed. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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