M. Bracher

Educating for Cosmopolitanism: Lessons from Cognitive Science and Literature

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US / Palgrave Pivot / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-137-39226-8
• 2013
• Seitenzahl: 141
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 287g
• ISBN-13: 9781137392268
• ISBN-10: 1137392266
• Artikelnr.: 39598382

Autorenporträt

Mark Bracher is Professor of English at Kent State University.

Inhaltsangabe

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 Achebe's Things Fall Apart 4. Developing Metacognition of Ethnocentrism with Lessing's "The Old Chief Mshlanga" and Voltaire's Candide 5. Correcting Faulty General Person-Schemas with Things Fall Apart, "The Old Chief Mshlanga," and Candide 6. Developing Cosmopolitan Action Scripts with Camus's "The Guest" and Coetzee's Disgrace