Teaching Civic Engagement through Literature | ||
| CDELT Occasional Papers in the Development of English Education | ||
| Article 11, Volume 66, Issue 1, January 2019, Pages 287-298 PDF (594.9 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/opde.2019.133239 | ||
| Author | ||
| Ghada Mahmoud Mamdouh Mohamed Abdel Hafeez Hafeez | ||
| Abstract | ||
| This paper explores different means for advancing a culture of civic engagement through literature and how civic engagement activities pursued by students through the literary texts they study can produce civic capacities that nurture their growth. Civic engagement through literature can become a pedagogical tool that instructors can use to turn the classrooms into a model of a community devoted to participatory democracy and the students from the apathetic disengaged and self-interested persons to active, motivated and engaged citizens | ||
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