Dr. Ying Ma is currently an Instructor at Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Canada. She used to be a high school teacher in Beijing, China for seven years prior to pursuing her graduate study at UBC. She has rich cross-cultural teaching and research experience in diverse settings. Her research interest includes teacher education, comparative research, narrative inquiry, teacher identity, philosophy of education, ethics, and curriculum studies.

This book explores Aristotelian and Confucian wisdom traditions to understand education and what counts as a good teacher in an embodied dialogic approach.

1. A Moral Quest of Teaching. 2. Why Do We Educate? Eudaimonia and Dao. 3. What Do We Educate? Phronesis, Philia and Ren. 4: How Do We Educate? Techne and Liuyi. 5. Becoming A Good Teacher Does Not Come That Easily. 6. Post-Pandemic Teaching Reimagined.