Educating for Cosmopolitanism: Lessons from Cognitive Science and Literature - Tapa dura

Bracher, Mark

 
9781137392268: Educating for Cosmopolitanism: Lessons from Cognitive Science and Literature
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ISBN 10: 1137392266 ISBN 13: 9781137392268
Editorial: Palgrave Pivot, 2013

Sinopsis

Drawing on recent findings of cognitive science, Mark Bracher here employs widely taught literary texts - including Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, Voltaire’s Candide, Camus’s "The Guest," and Coetzee’s Disgrace - to provide detailed demonstrations of how literary study can be used to develop cosmopolitanism, defined as a commitment to global justice. Cosmopolitanism, Bracher explains, is motivated by compassion for peoples who are distant and different from oneself, and compassion for them is dependent on perceiving their need, their deservingness, and their humanity. These perceptions are often prevented by faulty mindsets, or cognitive schemas, that can be corrected by the pedagogical practices described here.

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Mark Bracher is Professor of English at Kent State University.

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Palgrave Pivot
Año de publicación
2013
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Inglés
ISBN 10 
1137392266
ISBN 13 
9781137392268
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Número de páginas
150
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