{"id":303,"date":"2018-07-22T14:03:07","date_gmt":"2018-07-22T14:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neo-confucianism.com\/?p=303"},"modified":"2018-07-22T14:03:07","modified_gmt":"2018-07-22T14:03:07","slug":"student-comments-on-neo-confucianism-a-philosophical-introduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/neo-confucianism.com\/?p=303","title":{"rendered":"Student comments on Neo-Confucianism: A Philosophical Introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I taught a course on Neo-Confucianism during the Spring 2018 semester, and used\u00a0<em>Neo-Confucianism: A Philosophical Introduction<\/em>\u00a0as our main textbook. Our end-of-semester teaching evaluations can be customized to add specific questions, so I asked: &#8220;<strong>How did the course textbook work for you? Were there chapters or topics that were particularly helpful or particularly difficult?<\/strong>&#8221; The students&#8217; (anonymous) answers were:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The course textbook was interesting and relatively easy to understand. Honestly, I think every topic was equally helpful. I am very glad that we extensively used the course textbook.<\/li>\n<li>The textbook is very useful. It gives me the background knowledge to this course.<\/li>\n<li>The textbook was great, I relied on it heavily to revisit the descriptions of certain concepts when they were feeling too abstract.<\/li>\n<li>The course textbook seemed good to me. It was organized cleanly so that I could refer to the relevant chapter when I had a question about a topic, and it was pretty detailed without being overly dense for a textbook. The politics chapter was particularly helpful, as I didn&#8217;t know much about late Imperial policy questions.<\/li>\n<li>The textbooks are very helpful.Since the instructor is the co\u2013author of one of them, he explains the content better.<\/li>\n<li>I like the textbook very much, it has a clear logic and does a good job explaining concepts. The way chapters are arranged is also cohesive and good for a systematic understanding of Neo\u2013Confucianism.<\/li>\n<li>The textbook is very helpful. Perhaps it could go deeper in general but I understand that we may not have enough time for the course.<\/li>\n<li>The course textbook was difficult to understand in the beginning, but later on it was much easier. I think most of the topics and chapters were difficult to understand until I put more effort reading them and discussing them in class.<\/li>\n<li>The chapters were very helpful in making me understand Neo\u2013Confucianism. It was very clear and the quotes were helpful. It was also organized in just the right way.<\/li>\n<li>I thought that it was really great and that things were set out there very clearly and supplemented class very well.<\/li>\n<li>It was helpful on the whole<\/li>\n<li>the textbook was perfectly laid out, very organized, and taught the material in a clear and concise way<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I taught a course on Neo-Confucianism during the Spring 2018 semester, and used\u00a0Neo-Confucianism: A Philosophical Introduction\u00a0as our main textbook. Our end-of-semester teaching evaluations can be customized to add specific questions, so I asked: &#8220;How did the course textbook work for you? Were there chapters or topics that were particularly helpful or particularly difficult?&#8221; The students&#8217; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8ceVq-4T","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/neo-confucianism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/neo-confucianism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/neo-confucianism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neo-confucianism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neo-confucianism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=303"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/neo-confucianism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":304,"href":"http:\/\/neo-confucianism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303\/revisions\/304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/neo-confucianism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neo-confucianism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neo-confucianism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}