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Educating for Cosmopolitanism: Lessons from Cognitive Science and Literature

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  • © 2013

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Authors:
  1. Mark Bracher

    1. Department of English, Kent State University, USA

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. What Is Cosmopolitanism, and How Can Education Promote It?

    • Mark Bracher
    Pages 1-9

  3. How Cognitive Science Can Help Us Educate for Cosmopolitanism

    • Mark Bracher
    Pages 10-24

  4. Correcting Ethnocentric Prototypes of Self and Other with Achebe’s Things Fall Apart

    • Mark Bracher
    Pages 25-50

  5. Developing Metacognition of Ethnocentrism with Lessing’s “The Old Chief Mshlanga” and Voltaire’s Candide

    • Mark Bracher
    Pages 51-93

  6. Correcting Faulty General Person-Schemas with Things Fall Apart, “The Old Chief Mshlanga,” and Candide

    • Mark Bracher
    Pages 94-105

  7. Developing Cosmopolitan Action Scripts with Camus’s “The Guest” and Coetzee’s Disgrace

    • Mark Bracher
    Pages 106-128

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 129-141
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Drawing on developments in cognitive science, Bracher formulates pedagogical strategies for teaching literature in ways that develop students' cognitive capabilities for cosmopolitanism, the pursuit of global equality and justice. Several staple classroom texts, such as Things Fall Apart, provide detailed examples for teaching practices.

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  • Department of English, Kent State University, USA

    Mark Bracher

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Mark Bracher is Professor of English at Kent State University.

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