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This page, located in the commons, is the conceptual pathway page for Essays on StudyPlace. For an alphabetical list of active essays, consult the Essays category.

In some ways everything on StudyPlace is an essay; in others, however, an Essay can be demarcated by paying attention to several features. Essays on StudyPlace are formal pieces of writing. They can be peer-produced, but they tend to be singularly authored. Moreover, essays on StudyPlace are designed to ignite discussion and commentary. Contributors are encouraged to say what they mean and to take risks.

Contents 1 Background 2 Classic essays on StudyPlace: 3 Current essays on StudyPlace 4 Related pages

[edit] Background

Whether quantitative or qualitative, research concentrates on well-defined topics and it cascades forth in endless specialized publications. To achieve a better balance in the study of education, StudyPlace promotes general scholarship and criticism, seeking to renew traditions of informed, thoughtful generalization

Let us disclose the global cultural commons through reflective essays, sharing and critiquing new ideas and reflections about what educates. The constraints of printing make the revision of texts expensive and these constraints made it sensible to engage in peer review prior to publication. But now, in the digital commons, the constraints are different; peer review can become public, iterative, and continuous. StudyPlace encourages participants to test whether writers can better realize their intentions when able to interact with readers in a digital forum. Towards this end, StudyPlace invites the inclusion of essays, long and short, with the understanding that these will be open for public peer review, which will be, we trust, civil and constructive, but all the same probing and provoking.

[edit] Classic essays on StudyPlace:

• Emerson, "Self-reliance"
• Epictetus, "Discourses" and "The encheiridion"
• Fielding, "An essay on conversation"
• Montaigne, "Of pedantry"
• Seneca, "On liberal and vocational studies"

[edit] Current essays on StudyPlace

• Cresap. "Is Pragmatism Useless?"
• Eckardt, "The Study of Politics and Education"
• Higgins, "Notes_on_the_critical-interpretive_essay"
• McClintock (Robbie), "Towards a place for Study in a world of instruction"
• McClintock (Robbie), peers — On_(Not)_Defining_Education
• McClintock (Maxine), "Habits of mind"
• Roosevelt, "Educational Legacies of the French Enlightenment"
• Tietje, "Experience and Purpose"

[edit] Related pages

• Classic essays
• Schooling
• Exemplarity
• Chris Higgins on the critical-interpretive essay
• Authorship
• To post an essay for reflection and comment. . . .