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Duck-Joo Kwak - Education for Self-Transformation - 9789400724006 - V9789400724006
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Education for Self-Transformation

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Description for Education for Self-Transformation Hardback. This innovative book revives the essay form in academic writing, opening pedagogical space for articulating the inner struggle of 'lived experience' in the first person. Offers new templates for educational writing, new approaches to educator training and more. Series: Contemporary Philosophies and Theories in Education. Num Pages: 160 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JNA; JNKC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 11. Weight in Grams: 409.

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 ... Read more

 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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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
Series
Contemporary Philosophies and Theories in Education
Number of Pages
150
Place of Publication
Dordrecht, Netherlands
ISBN
9789400724006
SKU
V9789400724006
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Ref
99-15

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