Educating for Cosmopolitanism: Lessons from Cognitive Science and Literature [electronic resource] /
Bracher, M.author.
Drawing on developments in cognitive science, Bracher formulates pedagogical strategies for teaching literature in ways that develop students' cognitive capabilities for cosmopolitanism, the pursuit of global equality and justice. Several staple classroom texts, such as Things Fall Apart, provide detailed examples for teaching practices.
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""Cover ""; ""Half-Title ""; ""Title ""; ""Copyright ""; ""Dedication ""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""1 What Is Cosmopolitanism, and How Can Education Promote It?""; ""2 How Cognitive Science Can Help Us Educate for Cosmopolitanism""; ""3 Correcting Ethnocentric Prototypes of Self and Other with Achebeâ€?s Things Fall Apart""; ""4 Developing Metacognition of Ethnocentrism with Lessingâ€?s â€œThe Old Chief Mshlangaâ€? and Voltaireâ€?s Candide""; ""5 Correcting Faulty General Person-Schemas with Things Fall Apart, â€œThe Old Chief Mshlanga,â€? and Candide""
""6 Developing Cosmopolitan Action Scripts with Camusâ€?s â€œThe Guestâ€? and Coetzeeâ€?s Disgrace""""Works Cited""; ""Index""
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Drawing on developments in cognitive science, Bracher formulates pedagogical strategies for teaching literature in ways that develop students' cognitive capabilities for cosmopolitanism, the pursuit of global equality and justice. Several staple classroom texts, such as Things Fall Apart, provide detailed examples for teaching practices.
Education
Literature.
Educational Philosophy.
Literature, general.
International and Comparative Education.
Teaching and Teacher Education.
Creativity and Arts Education.
Educational Policy and Politics.