Education for self-transformation: essay form as an educational practice
Exemplifying what it advocates, this book is an innovative attempt to retrieve the essay form from its degenerate condition in academic writing. Its purpose is to create pedagogical space in which the inner struggle of 'lived experience' can articulate itself in the first person. Working through essays, the modern, 'post-secular' self can guide, understand, and express its own transformation. This is not merely a book about writing methods: it has a sharp existential edge. Beginning by definin…
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- Full title :Education for self-transformation : essay form as an educational practice / Duck-Joo Kwak.
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Exemplifying what it advocates, this book is an innovative attempt to retrieve the essay form from its degenerate condition in academic writing. Its purpose is to create pedagogical space in which the inner struggle of 'lived experience' can articulate itself in the first person. Working through essays, the modern, 'post-secular' self can guide, understand, and express its own transformation. This is not merely a book about writing methods: it has a sharp existential edge. Beginning by defining key terms such as 'self-transformation', Kwak sketches the contemporary debates between Jürgen Habermas and Charles Taylor on the status of religious language in the public domain, and its relationship to secular language. This allows her to contextualize her book's central questions: how can philosophical practice reduce the experiential rift between knowledge and wisdom? How can the essay form be developed so that it facilitates, as praxis, pedagogical self-transformation? Kwak develops her answers by working through ideas of George Lukács and Stanley Cavell, of Hans Blumenberg and Søren Kierkegaard, whose work is much less familiar in this context than it deserves to be. Kwak's work provides templates for new forms of educational writing, new approaches to teaching educators, and new ways of writing methodology for educational researchers. Yet the importance of her ideas extends far beyond teaching academies to classroom teachers, curriculum developers - and to anyone engaged in the quest to lead a reflective life of one's own.
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- Publication Date:2012
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- Publisher(s):Springer
- Place of Publication:Dordrecht
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2012
The Physical Object
- Description:viii, 149 pages ; : 25 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9789400724006, 9400724004, 9789400724013, 9400724012
- oclc:ocn744297284
- LC Classification:LC1100
- Dewey Decimal:370.1
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: education as self-transformation and the essay form of writing: education for a post-secular age -- 2. A reflection on the relation between philosophy and life; through Hans Blumenberg's work -- 3. A response to modernity between reason and faith: Kierkegaard's ideas of the ethical self and subjectivity -- 4. Practicing philosophy, the practice of education: exploring the essay-form through Lukács Soul and form -- 5. Stanley Cavell's ordinary language philosophy as an example of practicing philosophy in the essay-form: in search of a humanistic approach to teacher education -- 6. Philosophy as the essay form of writing: Cavell's concepts of voice, method, and text -- 7. Cavell's essayist as the political self: implication for citizenship education -- 8. Conclusion: the essay form of writing for a tragic form of subjectivity.
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