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Drawing on this philosophical discussion, learning experience is reinterpreted.  \nFindings: Beyond rationally translating experience into knowledge or gaining knowledge on the basis of experience, learning leads students to immediately and consistently experience dao in which tian and ren harmoniously unit. This experience renders aesthetics and religiousness in learning and moral transformation in life events.  \nOriginality/Value: By illustrating this ontological alternative of learning experience, this article is an attempt to fundamentally decolonize thinking about pedagogy.  \nCorresponding author:  \nYun You, Department of Education, Institute of Schooling Reform and Development, Wenke Building, East China Normal University, No. 3663, Zhongshan North Road, Shanghai, 200062, China.  \nEmail: [you.yun@outlook.com](you.yun@outlook.com)  \nCreative Commons Non Commercial CC BY-NC: This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative  \nCommons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License ([https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/)) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages ([https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage](https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage)).  \nKeywords  \nConfucius, constructivism, experience, learning experience, pedagogy Date received: 1 August 2019; accepted: 7 January 2020  \nLearning experience  \nThe popularization of international large-scale attainment tests, in particular Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), has positioned China as a new world-class educational reference society, especially for some Anglo-American countries.1 The 2018 PISA result that saw Chinese students far ahead of even peers in East Asia will probably only accelerate this trend. With regard to the identified lessons, major attention has been paid to either a variety of assumed transferable features regarding school systems, such as teacher payment, education and professional development, national curriculum, school autonomy and accountability, and strategies to eliminate school disparities, or factors outside schools, including Confucian culture still presented in contemporary China, parental expectation and high investment, and private supplementary tutoring (Morris, 2015) . However, among these explanations, pedagogy has often been ignored or downplayed in the narratives of China achieving educational “success.”  \nEven when pedagogical practices in China have been portrayed to be worthy of emulation, most ideas and concepts are thought to have originated in the West. For example, based on the evidence from East Asia, whole-class teaching has been advocated in Western classrooms (e.g., Reynolds & Farrell, 1996; Stevenson & Lee, 1995) .","cbCaikdEs32fdmSL","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaikdEs32fdmSL","pdf",360337,22,"English","# Abstract\n## Purpose\n## Design/Approach/Methods\n## Findings\n## Originality/Value\n# Learning experience","[{\"question\":\"What is the article’s main purpose regarding learning experience?\",\"answer\":\"It offers an alternative interpretation of learning experience against the dominant constructivist view and discusses what this means for pedagogy.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the study approach the alternative understanding?\",\"answer\":\"It compares constructivist understandings of experience with their philosophical underpinnings, then develops an alternative inspired by Confucius’ educational thought and ontology.\"},{\"question\":\"What do the findings claim about how learning works for students?\",\"answer\":\"Learning helps students immediately and consistently experience dao, where tian and ren harmonize, which in turn relates to aesthetics, religiousness, and moral transformation.\"}]","Learning Experience - An Alternative Understanding Inspired by Thinking Through Confucius | PDF",1792091944,55]