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In the concluding chapter, the author finally fleshes out the specific characteristics of the essayist writing as a pedagogical practice as well as the kind of subjectivity that this essayist writing tends to cultivate through its practice. Then readers will finally be in a position to judge whether the author’s intellectual journey in this book is worth accompanying or not; this judgment is fully in the readers’ hands.
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I sometimes express this original sense or Montaigne’s sense of the essay as “the essayist form of writing” to avoid possible confusions since “the essay” as a common term these days tends to refer to an article written in an academic form, which is exactly the form of writing that these essayists oppose in advancing “the essay” as a literary genre.
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It should be noted by this point of my argument in the book that “reading” and “writing” are inseparable in the essayist form of writing since essay writing is always about the reading of the text that already exists.
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See Wendy Kohli (1997) for an early discourse on this line of critique.
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The discourse on alternative methodologies and writing-forms has been one of hottest research topics for the last decade in the fields of philosophy of education and curriculum theories. Narrative inquiry, phenomenological method, autobiographical method and others have been suggested as alternative forms of educational research and writing. To see the trend of current scholarship on this topic, refer to: Peters (2009), Ruitenberg (2009), Bridges (2003), and Bridges and Smith (2007).
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Kwak, DJ. (2012). Conclusion: The Essay Form of Writing for a Tragic Form of Subjectivity. In: Education for Self-transformation. Contemporary Philosophies and Theories in Education, vol 3. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2401-3_8
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