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Publication Date: 2009-Mar
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How to Teach for Social Justice: Lessons from "Uncle Tom's Cabin" and Cognitive Science
Bracher, Mark
College English, v71 n4 p363-388 Mar 2009
The author explains how principles of cognitive science can help teachers of literature use texts as a means of increasing students' commitment to social justice. Applying these principles to a particular work, Uncle Tom's Cabin, he calls particular attention to the relationship between cognitive science and literary schemes for building reader empathy. (Contains 21 notes.)
Descriptors: Social Justice, Slavery, Empathy, Teaching Methods, Novels, United States History, Reader Text Relationship, Emotional Response, African Americans, Racial Discrimination, Social Attitudes, Social Bias, College English
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