1st Edition
Literature and Character Education in Universities Theory, Method, and Text Analysis
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
Biography
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.
