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Investigating the dynamics between a Big Story, learning, and performance, this dissertation re-presents Confucius’ Analects as a pedagogy of becoming a junzi, an ideal person(a) needed to right the wrongs in Confucius’ world. To Confucius, this is a goal-oriented learning process emphasizing focused observation of models, deliberate practice after exemplars, and situated and coordinated performance, mindful of impacts and consequences.First, a “Big Story” is a grand narrative that frames “common sense” and shared experience of a culture; it conditions as well as is constructed by corresponding language and performance. Second, a Big Story is a “goal-directed-learning” pedagogical concept that provides reasons and meanings for learning and motivates community members to emulate the language and performance of the role models chosen or created for the Big Story. Third, a Big Story demands performance beyond language expressions to focus on “doing”: accomplishing purposeful tasks.Exploring a series of pedagogical concepts and practices as presented in the Analects, this dissertation re-categorizes and re-presents a large set of terms, recasting the Confucian pedagogical tradition within the structure of a learning cycle. It raises a complex series of questions such as: why people need to learn; who can learn; where learning should begin and how it may progress; what is involved with learning; the interdependence between learning activities and the intended learning outcomes; goal-serving and context-specific performance as both the key to and end of learning, etc. |
