Teaching Civic Engagement through Literature | ||
| CDELT Occasional Papers in the Development of English Education | ||
| Article 13, Volume 68, Issue 1, October 2019, Pages 405-418 PDF (789.23 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/opde.2019.132683 | ||
| Author | ||
| Ghada Abdel Hafeez Hafeez | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Teaching civic engagement through literature can become a pedagogical tool that allows instructors to turn the literature classrooms into a model of a community devoted to participatory democracy and to change students change students change students change students from from from the apathetic disengaged and self the apathetic disengaged and self the apathetic disengaged and self the apathetic disengaged and self the apathetic disengaged and self the apathetic disengaged and self the apathetic disengaged and self -interested persons to active, motivated and interested persons to active, motivated and interested persons to active, motivated and interested persons to active, motivated and interested persons to active, motivated and interested persons to active, motivated and interested persons to active, motivated and interested persons to active, motivated and interested persons to active, motivated and interested persons to active, motivated and engaged citizens. engaged citizens. This paper explores different means for advancing a culture of civic engagement through teaching literature. It also elucidates how the activities of civic engagement pursued by students through the literary texts they study can produce civic capacities that nurture their growth | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Civic engagement; Teaching literature; Democratic classroom; Civic-engagement pedagogies | ||
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