Professional Education with Fiction Media

1. Front Matter

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2. The Educational Power of Fiction—An Interdisciplinary Exploration

   • Christine Jarvis

   Pages 1-26

3. Using Fictional Characters to Challenge Ageist Assumptions and Negative Stereotyping

   • Catherine Hayes

   Pages 27-47

4. Fictionalised Stories Co-produced with Disadvantaged Children and Young People: Uses with Professionals

   • Candice Satchwell

   Pages 49-69

5. Enhancing E-Learner Engagement by Using Narrative Fiction in Online Nursing and Health Disciplines Courses

   • Beth Perry, Margaret Edwards, Katherine Janzen

   Pages 71-92

6. Using Harry Potter to Enhance the Critical Appreciation of Law or Questioning Whether the Rule of Law Is as Much a Reality as the Crumpled Horned Snorkack

   • Samantha Halliday, in conversation with Christine Jarvis

   Pages 93-106

7. Tales from the Butterfly Café: Imagined Dialogues with Fictional Characters for Research and Practice

   • Randee Lipson Lawrence

   Pages 107-128

8. The Use of a Bookclub to Enhance Science Literacy and Understanding of Infectious Disease Epidemiology

   • Joanna Verran

   Pages 129-157

9. Understanding Social Media Learning Through Postmodern Literature

   • Cheryl Reynolds

   Pages 159-182

10. Educating Professionals to Think Critically and Creatively: Using Fiction to Teach in Professional Studies

    • Patricia Gouthro

    Pages 183-203

11. Shape-Shifting and Stories: Professionalism and Education with Doctor Who

    • Ann Harris

    Pages 205-228

12. Fairy Tale Endings?

    • Christine Jarvis, Patricia Gouthro

    Pages 229-242

13. Back Matter

    Pages 243-251

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This book analyses how narrative fictions can be used by faculty and staff in the teaching of professionals in higher education. As professional life becomes ever more demanding, this book draws together the work of researchers and practitioners who have explored the tremendous impact that narrative fictions – novels, short stories, drama and poetry – can have on development. The editors and contributors posit that fiction can help professionals imagine new ways of being, reinvent their roles and tackle problems without a road map. Using fiction can also provide a safe place for the exploration of ethics and decision making, as well as furnishing tools for the development of empathy and engagement by offering vicarious experiences of drastically different lives and situations. A medium that by its very nature contains a multiplicity of interpretations, using fiction in professional education can enhance the education of professionals working in a range of disciplines, including health, education, social care, law and science.

• Harry Potter and education
• Dr Who and Education
• Adult Education
• Art-Based Education
• Professional Education and Training
• Narrative fiction in Learning
• Using fiction in learning
• Educating professionals
• learning and instruction
• media research

• University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, UK

  Christine Jarvis

• Faculty of Education, Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax, Canada

  Patricia Gouthro

Christine Jarvis is Professor of Adult Education at the University of Huddersfield, UK. Her research interests combine literary studies, cultural studies and education, and she has published widely on the impact of literature upon student worldviews and children’s and young adult fiction.


Patricia Gouthro is Professor in Graduate Studies in Lifelong Learning at Mount Saint Vincent University, Canada. Her research interests focus on adult and higher education and she has published extensively on lifelong learning and fiction writing.

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