
Literature and Ethics in High School English Classes
Reading Together with Moral Vision
- 160 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
This book offers a defence of ethical reading in secondary school English classes at a time when reformers and policy makers are trying to reorganize English language arts around technical skills or politics. Ross Collin shows how students and teachers use literature as a venue for exploring their own and others' ethical ideas and practices and argues that moral inquiry in English class is a distinctly social endeavour. The book draws ideas from English education and moral philosophy. From English education, Collin explores social reading, or what Louise Rosenblatt named 'transaction', looking at texts commonly taught in secondary school English, including Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and Jacqueline Woodson's Brown Girl Dreaming. From philosophy, he draws on arguments about moral vision and literature developed by Iris Murdoch, Martha Nussbaum, and Nora Hämäläinen, and develops ideas, tacit in English education, about reading with moral vision. He concludes by proposing a new theory of moral vision in transactional reading.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title
- Series
- Dedication
- Title
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Reading Romeo and Juliet in a Transactional English Class
- 2 Perfecting Moral Vision through Reading the Antigone
- 3 Against Generalism in A Raisin in the Sun
- 4 Through the Sliding Glass Door in Brown Girl Dreaming
- 5 Persuaded to Care about Ghetto Cowboy
- 6 Of Mice and Men and Ethics
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- Index
- Copyright