Educating for cosmopolitanism : lessons from cognitive science and literature
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Educating for cosmopolitanism : lessons from cognitive science and literature
（Palgrave pivot）
Palgrave Macmillan, 2013
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 129-136) and index
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Description
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.
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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