Name: Yang Chao  

Gender: Male  

Ethnicity: Han  

Native place: Lanling, Shandong  

Education: Ph.D. (graduate)  

Title/Position: Associate Professor  

Research fields: Marxist theory and Ideological and Political education, comparative Chinese-Western moral education, philosophy of education  

Department: Teaching & Research Section for “Ideological and Moral Cultivation and Legal Basis”  

E-mail: chaoy@scut.edu.cn  

Education  

1998 – B.A. in English Education, Shandong Institute of Education  

2001 – M.A. in Principles of Education, College of Educational Science, Shandong Normal University  

2002 – Exchange Ph.D. student, Graduate School of Education, Dankook University, South Korea  

2004 – Ph.D. in Marxist Theory and Ideological and Political Education, School of Education, Sun Yat-sen University  

Professional Experience  

2005 – present  School of Marxism, South China University of Technology  

2009 – Post-doctoral fellow, National Institute for Educational Research, China  

2014 – Fulbright Research Scholar, Columbia University, New York, USA  

Teaching  

Undergraduate courses: “Ideological and Moral Cultivation and Legal Basis”, “Situation and Policy”  

Research  

Principal investigator of:  

- National Social Science Fund “Chinese Academic Translation” project (2018)  

- Three provincial/ministerial projects  

- Several departmental and central-university basic-research projects  

Publications: 3 scholarly books (authored/translated):  

- Modern Humanistic Moral Education  

- Contemporary Western Value-Education Trends  

- Beyond Humanistic Education  

More than 30 academic papers.  

Academic affiliation  

Council member, Guangdong Ethics Society