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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"literature and education"”.
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German literature and education for conscientization
This thesis introduces the concepts of critical education as inspired by the Frankfurt School of thought in their formulation of a critical theory of society. It also develops the critical educators' methodological approach to teaching, known as 'critical pedagogy'. Over and above this, this thesis …
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Literature and Education: Recalling Matthew Arnold
… spirit; to search for their law, not to wander among them at random; to judge by the rule of reason, not by the impulse of prejudice or caprice" (The Complete Prose Works of Matthew Arnold, Vol. 1, p. 21). But Arnold finds a critical opposition between man's instinctive efforts to develop …
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The Role of Symbolic Form in the Bedtime Nature Stories of Thornton W. Burgess
… examine them in light of Cassirer's philosophy, and explore their relevance to education theory.</p><p>Burgess holds that children are characterized by their potentiality, that their interest in animals is inherent, that they instinctively sense themselves superior to animals, and that for these …
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Getting to know them : characters labelled as mentally disabled in ten Canadian short stories and novels
… the treatment of mental disability in Canadian literature. Literature reflects the perceptions and practises of the culture of which it is a part. Radical changes have been made in recent years in the thinking about persons with mental handicaps. The issue of whether the changes are reflected in …
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Common ground: Nature, gender and labor in representations of rural communities in Spanish literature, 1895-1920
… history, 1895-1920, in which the 1898 Disaster and the uneven and lagging processes of modernization exacerbated differences between Spain and other European nations, differences between regions and classes within the country, and differences between the sexes. In their search for answers to the …
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A novel way to learn: black educational fiction from reconstruction to the Harlem renaissance
… examines the development of black fiction in tandem with black educational advancement from Reconstruction to the Harlem Renaissance. By reading education in the novels of Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Sutton Griggs, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Jessie Redmon Fauset, I reveal an underexplored genealogy …