Michael (Zhenyang) Cai (PhD student)
Contact details
- Email: zhenyang.cai@ed.ac.uk
PhD supervisors:
Address
- Street
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Moray House School of Education and Sport,
University of Edinburgh (Holyrood Campus) - City
- Post code
- EH88AQ
Background
I am a PhD student in the philosophy of education. After completing my master’s program in philosophy of education at IOE, UCL, I moved to Edinburgh to continue my PhD journey. My research focuses on aesthetic education from an intercultural philosophical perspective that bridges Eastern and Western traditions. This has been the core of my academic pursuit throughout my undergraduate, master’s, and doctoral studies.
Currently, I am working with the ideas of three key thinkers: John Dewey (American philosopher), Kida Gen (Japanese philosopher), and Feng Youlan (Chinese philosopher).
As Ralph Waldo Emerson beautifully expressed in The Rhodora:
“Rhodora! if the sages ask thee why, This charm is wasted on the earth and sky, Tell them, dear, that, if eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for being.”
Past project grants
Visiting Scholar, Centre for Contemporary Marxist Aesthetics, Zhejiang University, China. Funded by Turing Grant from UCL.
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CAI Zhenyang． Is aesthetic education an education by others or self－education［J］． Chongqing higher education research，2022，10( 5) : 105－127．