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Author:   Edward Brooks ,  Emma Cohen de Lara ,  Álvaro Sánchez-Ostiz ,  José Maria Torralba
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9780367753597

ISBN 10:   0367753596
Pages:   204
Publication Date:   30 September 2021
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Introduction Part 1- Character education and core texts: didactics and methodology 1. Reading for pleasure: from narrative competence to character education Rosalía Baena 2. In dialogue with Antigone: Ricoeur’s theory of reading as a tool for designing a core texts course José Manuel Mora-Fandos 3. Having a great author as a companion: toward a didactical framework for studying core texts at the last stage of teacher education Bram de Muynck and Bram Kunz 4. Character education at any age? Cicero on the lifelong pursuit of intellectual and moral virtue Álvaro Sánchez-Ostiz 5. Character education and assessment in practice. A case study of a European liberal arts college Tessa Leesen and Alkeline van Lenning Part 2- Character education and core texts in literature and philosophy 6. From character to parable and allegory: varieties of moral imagination in fictional literature David Carr 7. Virtue, vice, and saintliness in The Brothers Karamazov Nancy E. Snow 8. Literature and practical wisdom. An experience with The Catcher in the Rye Rosa Fernández Urtasun 9. Interiorizing ethics through science fiction. Brave New World as a paradigmatic case study Raquel Cascales and Luis E. Echarte 10. Friendship, Self-Knowledge, and Core Texts. A Pathway for Character Education at University Ana Romero-Iribas 11. Teaching humility in Confucius’ Analects: questioning the value of deference Yang Yeung Index

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Edward Brooks is the Executive Director of the Oxford Character Project at the University of Oxford, UK. Emma Cohen de Lara is a Senior Lecturer at Amsterdam University College and Research Fellow at the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research, the Netherlands. Álvaro Sanchez-Ostíz is an Associate Professor of Latin Philology at the University of Navarra, Spain. José Maria Torralba is an Associate Professor of Moral Philosophy and Director of the Core Curriculum Institute at the University of Navarra, Spain.

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