In this dissertation I trace my changing practices as a teacher and a learner. I look closely at three questions that have been centrally important to my development as a high school English teacher, and I consider what it might mean for English classes to induct newcomers into the conversations, identities, and dispositions at the heart of current discourse traditions so that students become autonomous, engaged, and fully participating learners in the 21st century. By continually reinventing my teaching practice, I recreate an apprenticeship for my students with myself as the central contributor—a kind of master or mentor—who learns to learn in public space and invites students into fuller roles in building and refining our collective knowledge. This is essentially the thinking that powers the culture of instruction in my classroom—what I’m calling an academic apprenticeship, an endless apprenticeship.

[pt] A presente tese tem como tema uma análise da dimensão filosófica do discurso autobiográfico apresentado por Platão na carta que passou a ser conhecida, desde a compilação de Trasímaco, como a Carta VII. A tradição de comentários e interpretações estabeleceu o hábito de considerar a carta como sendo um documento de grande importância historiográfica, uma fonte de informações sobre a política da Siracusa no séc. IV a.C. e sobre a própria vida de Platão, mas não como uma obra de caráter filosófico – exceto pelo excurso teórico apresentado no passo 341a-345c. A pesquisa aqui apresentada defende uma tese diferente: o texto de apresentação, escrutínio e justificativa da própria trajetória biográfica tem, ele próprio, um caráter filosófico, na medida em que faz culminar a apropriação socrático-platônica do preceito délfico Conhece-te a ti mesmo. Para sustentar a tese, o texto apresenta uma análise da história desse preceito na cultura grega, e o sentido dessa apropriação filosófica no contexto maior da obra de Platão. Além disso, a tese também se ocupa da controversa questão da autoria do texto, contestada por parte dos estudiosos. Ao tratar da questão da autenticidade ou espuriedade do texto, a pesquisa faz um inventário crítico que divide os argumentos favoráveis e contrários em vários tipos – argumentos estilísticos, estilométricos, historiográficos e filosóficos –, e termina por posicionar-se sobre o tema. / [en] This thesis explores the philosophical dimension of the autobiographical discourse presented by Plato in the text known, since the compilation made by Trasimacus, as the Seventh Letter. The tradition of commentary and interpretation has established the use of reading the letter as a document of great historigraphical importance, as a source of information about the political affairs in Siracuse during the IV century b. C., and about Plato himself – but not as a work of philosophical nature (except for the digression in 341a-345c). The present research proposes a different idea: a piece of writing in which Plato presentes, examins and justifies his own biographical trajectory has in itself a philosophical nature, insofar as it fulfills the socratic-platonic appropriation of the Delfic precept “Know thyself”. To defend the hypothesis, the research analyses the history of the Delfic principle in Ancient Greece, and the deep meaning of the mentioned appropriation in the wider context of Plato’s works. Besides, the present thesis also delas with the controvert subjetc of the letter’s authenticity, challenged by some scholars. In dealing with this matter, the research will present a critic inventory that sorts in kinds all the arguments, both contrary and favorable to the authenticity – the ones based on style, stylometry, History and philosophy – and, at last, it takes a stand on that issue.

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This project is a constructive effort in the area of practical and public theology as part of my larger purpose of contributing to the positive transformation of post-communist Eastern Europe. It is driven by the substantiated conviction that spiritual autobiography is not only a legitimate form of religious discourse but that can also serve as a vehicle for personal transformation and a tool of transformative leadership. One of the central purposes of this project is to prepare the author for writing a faithful and effective spiritual autobiography that can reach a broader audience and have transformational effects on readers. By producing my own spiritual autobiography, I seek to add a new dimension to my existing theoretical and practical work in the area of public theology with the hope that readers will not only recognize and positively respond to God’s call but also become responsibly engaged in transforming this world towards greater justice, freedom, and peace. / 2025-03-22T00:00:00Z

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