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Teaching Self-Critical Empathy: Lessons Drawn from "The Tortilla Curtain" and "Half of a Yellow Sun"
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Direct linkCohen, Omri – English in Education, 2021
Teaching and reading literature are commonly viewed as contributing to the cultivation of empathy. This article presents critical and pedagogical approaches to test this view and suggests a distinction between low-level, simple empathy inspired by the reading and teaching of "The Tortilla Curtain" and a more complex, self-critical…
Descriptors: Empathy, Literature, Teaching Methods, Literary Criticism
