Buch, Englisch, 170 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 363 g
Why Reading Fiction Matters in an Age of Scientific Objectivity and Standardization
Buch, Englisch, 170 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 363 g
ISBN: 978-1-138-82346-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
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Contents
Foreword Michael Moore
Preface
1 Introduction: The Need to Make the Case for Teaching Literature
Part I: What Literature Can Do
- Literature and Identification: How self becomes character
- Literature and Empathy: How narrative stimulates emotion
- Literature and Critical Thinking: How fiction makes us think\
- Literature and Social Action: Can reading change what we do?
Part II: Challenges to Literary Study
- Literature Curriculum and Standards-based Education
- Case Study: College Town Middle School, with Taylor Norman and Tiffany Sedberry
Part III: Reviving the Secondary School Literary Experience
- Implications for English Teacher Education
- Teaching literature for profit or pleasure?
- Literature and morality
Appendix A: Additional sample lessons and activities for teaching literature to encourage identification, empathy, critical thinking and social action
Appendix B: Additional, related sample activities
About the Contributors
Index