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Educating for Cosmopolitanism: Lessons from Cognitive Science and Literature M. Bracher

Educating for Cosmopolitanism: Lessons from Cognitive Science and Literature By M. Bracher

Educating for Cosmopolitanism: Lessons from Cognitive Science and Literature by M. Bracher

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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.

Educating for Cosmopolitanism: Lessons from Cognitive Science and Literature Summary

Educating for Cosmopolitanism: Lessons from Cognitive Science and Literature by M. Bracher

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.

About M. Bracher

Mark Bracher is Professor of English at Kent State University.

Table of Contents

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

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NPB9781137392268
9781137392268
1137392266
Educating for Cosmopolitanism: Lessons from Cognitive Science and Literature by M. Bracher
M. Bracher
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Hardback
Palgrave Macmillan
2013-10-31
141
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