Literature and Character Education in Universities

Edward Brooks is the Executive Director of the Oxford Character Project at the University of Oxford, UK. Emma Cohen de Lara is a Senior Lecturer at Amsterdam University College and Research Fellow at the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research, the Netherlands. Álvaro Sanchez-Ostíz is an Associate Professor of Latin Philology at the University of Navarra, Spain. José Maria Torralba is an Associate Professor of Moral Philosophy and Director of the Core Curriculum Institute at the University of Navarra, Spain.

Introduction

Part 1- Character education and core texts: didactics and methodology

1. Reading for pleasure: from narrative competence to character education

Rosalía Baena

2. In dialogue with Antigone: Ricoeur’s theory of reading as a tool for designing a core texts course

José Manuel Mora-Fandos

3. Having a great author as a companion: toward a didactical framework for studying core texts at the last stage of teacher education

Bram de Muynck and Bram Kunz

4. Character education at any age? Cicero on the lifelong pursuit of intellectual and moral virtue

Álvaro Sánchez-Ostiz

5. Character education and assessment in practice. A case study of a European liberal arts college

Tessa Leesen and Alkeline van Lenning

Part 2- Character education and core texts in literature and philosophy

6. From character to parable and allegory: varieties of moral imagination in fictional literature

David Carr

7. Virtue, vice, and saintliness in The Brothers Karamazov

Nancy E. Snow

8. Literature and practical wisdom. An experience with The Catcher in the Rye

Rosa Fernández Urtasun

9. Interiorizing ethics through science fiction. Brave New World as a paradigmatic case study

Raquel Cascales and Luis E. Echarte

10. Friendship, Self-Knowledge, and Core Texts. A Pathway for Character Education at University

Ana Romero-Iribas

11. Teaching humility in Confucius’ Analects: questioning the value of deference

Yang Yeung

Index