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TEACHING CHARACTER EDUCATION THROUGH LITERATURE IBD

ROUTLEDGE
05 / 2005
9780415322027
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Sinopsis

This bookáshows how secondary and post-secondary teachers can help students become more responsive to the ethical themes and questions that emerge from the narratives they study. It helps teachersáto integrate character education into the classroom by focusingáon a variety of waysáof drawing instructive insights from fictional life narratives. The case studies and questions throughout are designed to awaken studentsâÇÖ moral imagination and prompt ethical reflection on four protagonistsâÇÖ motivations, aspirations, and choices. The book is divided into two parts. The firstáprovides a theoretical approacháwhile the second features case studies to apply this approacháto the study of four literary characters:Sydney Carton from Tale of Two CitiesJay Gatsby from The Great GatsbyElizabeth Bennet fromáPride and PrejudiceJanie Crawford from Their Eyes Were Watching God The questions, ideas and approaches used in these case studies can also be applied to protagonists from other narrative works in the curriculum.á

PVP
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