Tan Chuanbao

Tan Chuanbao is Professor of Faculty of Education and founding director of the Center for Citizenship and Moral Education at Beijing Normal University, China. His research is focused on moral education, citizenship education and teacher ethics. He is author of many highly regarded books in China, including An Aesthetic View on Moral Education (1996), Belief Education and Moral Education (1998), Studies on Ethics for Teachers (2000), Towards New Teacher’s Ethics: Explorations of Professional Ethics of Teachers (2009), Conspectus of Citizenship Education: International Experience, Historical Transition and China's Choice（2011）, Romanticism: Freedom and Duty——Lectures on Moral Education（2012), and Case Studies on the Diagnosis of School Moral Education Problems (2012).

Professor Tan received his Ph.D. from Nanjing Normal University in China in 1996, and completed a postdoctoral study in Beijing Normal University in 1998. Among his international academic experiences, he was a senior visiting scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, 2002-2003, visiting professor at Institute of Education of University of London, UK, 2006; and foreign visiting researcher at Naruto University of Education, Japan, 2009.