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Spector, Karen; Murray, Elizabeth Anne – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2023
Purpose: Preservice English teachers are expected to use literary theories and criticism to read and respond to literary texts. Over the past century, two of the most common approaches to literary encounters in secondary schools have been New Criticism -- particularly the practice of close reading -- and Rosenblatt's transactional theory, both of…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, English Teachers, Inquiry, Caring
Weems, Mary E., Ed. – Peter Lang New York, 2013
"Writings of Healing and Resistance: Empathy and the Imagination-Intellect" is a multi-authored, interdisciplinary journey. It continues the work started in Public Education and the Imagination-Intellect (Peter Lang, 2003) by extending the importance of empathy in developing an action-based social consciousness. Mary E. Weems doesn't argue for a…
Descriptors: Youth, African Americans, Altruism, American Studies
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Colapietro, Vincent – Studies in Philosophy and Education, 2005
Peirce was a thinker who claimed that his mind had been thoroughly formed by his rigorous training in the natural sciences. But he was also the author who proclaimed that nothing is truer than true poetry. In making the case for Peirce's relevance to issues of education, then, it is necessary to do justice to the multifaceted character of his…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Natural Sciences, Poetry, Inquiry