Ruyu Hung
RUYU HUNG is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy of Education at the National Chiayi University, Taiwan.
She has two PhDs from University of Bath, UK and from National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan.
She was awarded Research Fellowships of Japan-Taiwan Exchange Association and Fulbright Senior Researcher Scholarship. She was a visiting professor at Osaka University, Japan, the University of Luxembourg and the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Her research interests include philosophy of education, ecological philosophy, phenomenology, deconstruction and daoism. In recent years, she has extended her research into comparative and intercultural philosophies of education.
Her academic specialties lie in the fields of ecopedagogy, philosophy of education, educational aesthetics, and ethics, with particular emphasis on deconstruction, phenomenology, ecological philosophy, and comparative study between Eastern and Western educational philosophies.
Ruyu Hung was elected a Fellow of the Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia (PESA) in 2022. Hung has extensively published in both Chinese and English in peer-reviewed journals and books.
She is the editor of A Kaleidoscopic View of Chinese Philosophy of Education (2018, Routledge), Cultivation of Self in East Asian Philosophy of Education (2019, Routledge), and co-editor of The Confucian Concept of Learning Revisited for East Asian Humanistic Pedagogies (2018, Routledge).
Her book, “Education between Speech and Writing: Crossing the Boundaries of Dao and Deconstruction” (2018, Routledge), received the 2019 Book Award from PESA and from the Coalition of Educational Academic Societies in Taiwan. Her notable edited publication is “Nature, Art, and Education in East Asia: Philosophical Connections” by Routledge (2023).