Literature and Ethics in High School English Classes : Reading Together with Moral Vision - Ross Collin

Literature and Ethics in High School English Classes

Reading Together with Moral Vision

By: Ross Collin

Hardcover | 14 November 2024

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This book offers a defence of ethical reading in secondary school English classes at a time when reformers and policy makers are trying to reorganize English language arts around technical skills or politics. Ross Collin shows how students and teachers use literature as a venue for exploring their own and othersâ ethical ideas and practices and argues that moral inquiry in English class is a distinctly social endeavour. The book draws ideas from English education and moral philosophy. From English education, Collin explores social reading, or what Louise Rosenblatt named âtransactionâ, looking at texts commonly taught in secondary school English, including Shakespeareâs Romeo and Juliet and Jacqueline Woodsonâs Brown Girl Dreaming. From philosophy, he draws on arguments about moral vision and literature developed by Iris Murdoch, Martha Nussbaum, and Nora H¤m¤l¤inen, and develops ideas, tacit in English education, about reading with moral vision. He concludes by proposing a new theory of moral vision in transactional reading.

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