IISE Visiting Scholar Dr. Weizhong Cai recently had his book published. Congratulations!
Entitled “Research on legal education of college students: From the perspective of civic awareness cultivation”, the book presents a historical review of theoretical basis of legal education courses in Chinese universities from the perspective of civil consciousness. It lays out a comprehensive, systematic, historical and comparative analysis of legal education theories and practices in Chinese universities.
Picture 1. Portrait of Dr. Weizhong Cai.
In his book, Dr. Cai explores the relationship between university students' legal education courses and their civic consciousness. The publication was a continuance of his dissertation research, which models an in-depth study of structures, contents and teaching approaches of legal education courses or classes. One of his key findings substantiates the importance of the legal education in China for the cultivation of civic awareness over a long period of time.
Picture 2. Front cover of the book.
Dr. Cai is an associate professor from Shandong University, China. He obtained his Master degree in civil law and Ph.D. degree in ideology and politics education at Shandong University. His research interest focuses on the civic education, legal education, rule of law and government, and MOOC.
He is currently serving as a visiting scholar at the Institute for International Studies in Education (IISE), University of Pittsburgh. His faculty counterpart at the University of Pittsburgh is Prof. Maureen McClure and his current research project is “The Civic Education Between U.S. and China: What Can We Learn from A Cross-Culture Perspective?” He also looks into roles of global education in providing more ways to improve legal education of college/university students in China.
Last fall 2009, he presented his on-going work at the IISE Symposium series. Click here for summary of his presentation.
The published book is written in the Chinese language. Anyone needs further information on the book may reach Dr. Cai himself at weizhongcai.sdu@gmail.com.