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The Call of Stories : Teaching and the Moral Imagination
The Call of Stories Teaching and the Moral Imagination Author:Robert Coles American child psychiatrist, Robert Coles, tells of the nourishing moral insights that come from books and reading throughout life. Using the "documentary study or psychiatric anthropology" approach of his previous works, Coles presents conversations with college, law, and medical school students that focus on the moral impact of... more » their reading. For Coles, the study of literature is not a purely intellectual exercise but an encounter with exempla that bear on everyday moral dilemmas, and he argues that these students have come to see characters in novels as "buddies" that "help them make choices," find a direction, identify moral hazards, and understand their private lives.
Contents:
Stories and theories --
Starting out --
Finding a direction --
Interlude: Bringing poems to medical school teaching --