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Education for Self-Transformation: Essay Form as an Educational Practice

Education for Self-Transformation: Essay Form as an Educational Practice

Hardcover

Series: Contemporary Philosophies and Theories in Education, Book 3

General EducationTeaching Instruction

ISBN10: 9400724004
ISBN13: 9789400724006
Publisher: Springer
Published: Oct 12 2011
Pages: 150
Weight: 0.89
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Preface; Paul Standish.- 1. Introduction: Education as Self-transformation and the Essayist Form of Writing: Education for a Post-secular Age.- PART I - George Lukács: Practice of Philosophy for Existential Fulfillment.- 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 Ethical Self and Subjectivity.- 4. Practicing Philosophy, the Practice of Education: Exploring the Essayist Form through Lukács' Soul and Form.- PART II - Stanley Cavell: Practice of Education in the Essay-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 Essayist 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 Essayist Form of Writing for a Tragic Form of Subjectivity.- Index.

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