{"id":96963,"date":"2019-05-21T13:22:27","date_gmt":"2019-05-21T23:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=96963"},"modified":"2019-05-21T13:22:27","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T23:22:27","slug":"award-for-philosophy-scholar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2019\/05\/21\/award-for-philosophy-scholar\/","title":{"rendered":"Lifetime achievement award for Chinese philosophy scholar"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"attachment_96964\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-96964\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/manoa-philosophy-ames.jpg\" alt=\"male\" width=\"250\" height=\"350\" class=\"size-full wp-image-96964\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/manoa-philosophy-ames.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/manoa-philosophy-ames-93x130.jpg 93w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/manoa-philosophy-ames-214x300.jpg 214w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-96964\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Roger T. Ames<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M\u0101noa Professor Emeritus of <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaii.edu\/phil\/\">Philosophy<\/a> <strong>Roger T. Ames<\/strong> received the 2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johndeweysociety.org\/\">John Dewey Society<\/a> (<abbr title=\"John Dewey Society\">JDS<\/abbr>) Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Award for his distinguished career as a scholar-practitioner, working and living in both the Deweyan and Confucian traditions. <\/p>\n<p>The award recognizes a scholar-practitioner who, in the Deweyan tradition, connects the worlds of theory and practice in promoting the development of democratic citizens; or an exceptional explicator and interpreter of Dewey\u2019s philosophy and educational theory. <\/p>\n<p>According to the <abbr>JDS<\/abbr> executive committee, over the course of his career, Ames has inspired many students and colleagues, and it is his gracious spirit, as well as his tireless commitment to fostering intercultural understanding and creative democratic communities beyond cultural and national boundaries that renders him an exemplary role model and interpreter of Dewey\u2019s philosophy. <\/p>\n<p>Ames has also won several international awards, including the 2013 Confucius Culture Prize at the Sixth Annual World Confucian Conference in Shandong, China. He retired from <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> in 2016 and is currently the humanities chair professor in the Department of Philosophy at Peking University in Beijing, China. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roger T. Ames received the 2019 John Dewey Society Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Award for his distinguished career as a scholar-practitioner, working and living in both the Deweyan and Confucian traditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[113,598,764,9],"class_list":["post-96963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-people","tag-college-of-arts-and-humanities","tag-faculty-recognition","tag-philosophy","tag-uh-manoa","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96963"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96998,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96963\/revisions\/96998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}