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Liberal Arts English Education in China
Heuristics of a Way of Teaching
What does a liberal arts approach look like in a Chinese university English classroom?
Drawing on years of teaching experience, Christiaan Woehle explores how critical thinking, intellectual independence, and curiosity can inform everyday language teaching. A practical collection of classroom heuristics, philosophical reflections, and teaching experiences—not a rigid methodology.
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Liberal Arts English Education in China: Heuristics of a Way of Teaching is a practical and reflective guide for university English teachers interested in bringing the principles of classical liberal arts education into the language classroom.
Drawing on years of teaching experience in China and earlier experience in alternative educational settings, Christiaan Woehle explores how intellectual independence, curiosity, critical judgement, and reasoned inquiry can become part of everyday English teaching.
The book combines educational philosophy with practical classroom approaches, covering critical reading, intercultural communication, public speaking, Readers Theatre, academic English, and student-centred discussion.
Rather than presenting a rigid teaching methodology, the author offers a collection of heuristics: adaptable principles, observations, and classroom practices intended to help teachers develop their own approaches to teaching.
The book also reflects on the possibilities and limitations of applying liberal arts educational ideals within Chinese university classrooms, distinguishing between what has proved workable in practice and what remains an aspiration.
Written primarily for beginning and developing university English teachers, it invites readers to consider teaching not merely as language instruction, but as an opportunity to cultivate independent thought, intellectual engagement, and meaningful communication.
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Christiaan Andreas Valentijn Woehle
Christiaan Woehle is a Dutch educator with approximately seven years of university teaching experience in China, as well as experience in academic English education in Japan.
He holds an MSc in Philosophy of Science, Technology and Society from the University of Twente, a BA in Humanities from the University of Malta, and a postgraduate qualification in Character Education from the University of Birmingham.
His teaching experience includes Critical Reading, Intercultural Communication, Public Speaking, Academic English, and Readers Theatre.
His educational approach draws on the classical liberal arts tradition, emphasizing intellectual independence, critical inquiry, reasoned discussion, and the cultivation of curiosity.
In Liberal Arts English Education in China, he brings together his philosophical interests and practical classroom experience, offering a personal collection of teaching heuristics rather than a prescriptive educational methodology.
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