Hongyu Wang

Author of "Contemporary Daoism, Organic Relationality, and Curriculum of Integrative Creativity"

January 10, 2022

Hongyu Wang is a Professor in Curriculum Studies at Oklahoma State University-Tulsa. Her main research and scholarship areas include nonviolence education, curriculum theory, international dialogues, mindful teaching and the inner landscape of education. She has authored numerous articles and scholarly books including "Nonviolence and Education," "From the Parade Child to the King of Chaos" "Cross-Cultural Studies in Curriculum: Eastern Thought, Educational Insights," "A Journey To Unlearn and Learn in Multicultural Education," and "The Call from the Stranger on a Journey Home: Curriculum in a Third Space." 

Creativity in the West is often perceived as “cutting edge” and “ground-breaking” in a singular act of giving birth to the new. However, to what degree has this model of breaking away from others and the world contributed to the current crisis in education, society, and ecology? How can our re-imagining of creativity contribute to the mutual flourishing of humanity and of relations between humans and the planet? Daoist creativity, based upon relationality and interdependence, has much to offer to today’s curriculum as a complicated conversation to sustain life and renew the world. Integrative, emergent, embodied, co-creative, and ecological, Daoist creativity has a built-in opening to difference through the organic relationality of Yin/Yang dynamics.

This book focuses on one essential thread in Daoism—integrative creativity through organic relationality—and weaves its interplay with Western thought through multiple and intertwined dimensions of curriculum. Bringing together Daoist philosophy, European analytic psychology, American complexity theory, and gendered analysis (to name a few), this book offers cross-cultural curriculum insights and wisdom for individual and collective awakenings to creativity that connects for students, teachers, and their educational community.

URL: https://library-dep.okstate.edu/news/celebratingbooks/2022-honorees/hongyu-wang

Last Updated: 14 February 2022