Literature and Character Education in Universities : Theory, Method, and Text Analysis (Hardcover)

Introduction Part 1- Character education and core texts: didactics and methodology 1. Reading for pleasure: from narrative competence to character education Rosalia Baena 2. In dialogue with Antigone: Ricoeur’s theory of reading as a tool for designing a core texts course Jose 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 Alvaro Sanchez-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 Fernandez 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