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Starting from John Dewey’s first-time encounter with Chinese traditional education, this chapter analyzes the social and political background of this visit. One hundred years later, as the third-generation successor of Dewey’s theory, Professor Connelly came to China and felt deeply the great changes in education of contemporary China. With the support of the Sino-Canada Reciprocal Learning Project, he undertook a long-term observation of and reflection on China’s culture, education and schools. Dewey’s encounter with Chinese traditional education 100 years ago set a good example for the exchange of ideas and learning between F. Michael Connelly and Ye Lan, which started a new journey of cross-cultural reciprocal learning between Canada and China in the first two decades of the new century.

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    This was one of Ye Lan’s summary comments at the 2018 Reciprocal Learning Conference.

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    Professor Connelly’s summary at the China-Canada International Conference on Reciprocal Learning in May 2018.

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Qi, S. (2021). Dewey Meets Confucius. In: Bu, Y. (eds) Narrative Inquiry into Reciprocal Learning Between Canada-China Sister Schools. Intercultural Reciprocal Learning in Chinese and Western Education. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61085-2_3

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