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- ISSN: 0010-0994
- E-ISSN: 2161-8178
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How to Teach for Social Justice: Lessons from Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Cognitive Science
- Source: College English, Volume 71, Issue 4, Mar 2009, p. 363 - 388
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- 01 Mar 2009
Abstract
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.
© 2009 by the National Council of Teachers of English