Teaching Self-Critical Empathy: Lessons Drawn from "The Tortilla Curtain" and "Half of a Yellow Sun"

Autor/in	Cohen, Omri
Titel	Teaching Self-Critical Empathy: Lessons Drawn from "The Tortilla Curtain" and "Half of a Yellow Sun"
Quelle	In: English in Education, 55 (2021) 2, S.132-148 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0425-0494
DOI	10.1080/04250494.2019.1686953
Schlagwörter	Empathy; Literature; Teaching Methods; Literary Criticism; Critical Theory; Reading Processes; Novels; Civil Rights; Critical Thinking; Advanced Placement; High School Students; Grade 12; Foreign Countries; Gender Differences; Student Attitudes; Israel (Tel Aviv) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Empathie; Literatur; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Literaturkritik; Kritische Theorie; Leseprozess; Novel; Roman; Bürgerrechte; Grundrechte; Zivilrecht; Kritisches Denken; High school; High schools; Student; Students; Oberschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; School year 12; 12. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 12; Ausland; Geschlechterkonflikt; Schülerverhalten
Abstract	Teaching and reading literature are commonly viewed as contributing to the cultivation of empathy. This article presents critical and pedagogical approaches to test this view and suggests a distinction between low-level, simple empathy inspired by the reading and teaching of "The Tortilla Curtain" and a more complex, self-critical understanding of empathy that acknowledges its reach and limits by reading and teaching "Half of a Yellow Sun." This distinction is observed in literary criticism and theory about teaching empathy, in the examination of teaching resources, and in the personal experience of teaching "Half of a Yellow Sun." The conclusion is that teachers and students should not be satisfied with simple or passive empathy, but rather can and should strive towards more critical and sceptical investigations of the power of the written word to educate towards empathy. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01