Teaching Character Education through Literature

Teaching Character Education through Literature This book?shows how secondary and post-secondary teachers can help students become more responsive to the ethical themes and questions that emerge from the narratives they study. It helps teachers?to integrate character education into the classroom by focusing?on a variety of ways?of drawing instructive insights from fictional life narratives. The case studies and questions throughout are designed to awaken students’ moral imagination and prompt ethical reflection on four protagonists’ motivations, aspirations, and choices. The book is divided into two parts. The first?provides a theoretical approach?while the second features case studies to apply this approach?to the study of four literary characters: Sydney Carton from Tale of Two Cities Jay Gatsby from The Great Gatsby Elizabeth Bennet from?Pride and Prejudice Janie Crawford from Their Eyes Were Watching God The questions, ideas and approaches used in these case studies can also be applied to protagonists from other narrative works in the curriculum.Teaching Character Education through Literature is written by Bohlin, Karen and published by Routledge. ISBNs for Teaching Character Education through Literature are 9780415322027, 0415322022 and the print ISBNs are 9780415322027, 0415322022.