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Dear Aurelien,
let me share with you some interesting reading. Roland Reichenbach is definitely on my personal „Guru“ list. A pedagogy scientist from Switzerland. He writes mostly in German. Here is the link to the extract from his book in English: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3…
In Reichenbach/Pack article of the following book in German he makes a highly interesting intercultural comparison, attached is a tranlsation into English of one of the passages: „In the Neo-Confucian tradition, the concept of heart/mind has been popular since the Song dynasty. It expresses the emotional nature of education (Shimada 1987; Lo 2014, p. 60). The word xin - heart/mind - originally stood for the physical organ, later metaphorically for the potentiality of the (quasi) "emotive" heart and the (quasi) "cognitive" mind, which are thought of as analytically dual but functionally holistic, as Lo emphasizes (2014, p. 61) 6 . In this tradition of thought, the heart is the physical location of human motives, desires and habits; not only the place of feelings and experience, but also and above all the place of controlling and leading one's own life in the light of overarching social goals and orders of the existence of all things (Shun 2010, p. 179). The principle, which initially seems abstract, "materializes" in the increasingly concrete practices of everyday life. In this, the care and nurturing of the heart/mind is closely related to the ancient Greek idea of self-care, which Michel Foucault was interested in during the last phase of his work (Foucault 1993)“