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How to Teach for Social Justice: Lessons from Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Cognitive Science
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2009
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Social SciencesNarrative RepresentationReader Response TheoryLiterary CriticismChildren's LiteratureSocial Justice IssuesLiterary ReadingCognitive ScienceLiterary StudyCreative WritingImaginative WritingReader EmpathyCreative NonfictionUncle Tom ’Epistemic JusticeArtsJusticeInjusticeSocial Justice
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.