LIBRARY
ENG 498: Senior Seminar: Storytelling and Empathy in Dickens' A Christmas Carol
Books from the Library Catalog
Speaking and Listening Through Drama 7-11 by Call Number: ebookISBN: 9781412929691Publication Date: 2007-05-09This book for inservice and preservice teachers demonstrates how to use drama to promote students' speaking and listening skills, including strategies to help motivate reluctant learners. The authors show techniques for using role play effectively and explore how to generate a productive dialogue between teachers and pupils that is both powerful and enabling. Speaking and Listening Through Drama 7-11 presents innovative inclusive methods for teaching across the curriculum and provides classroom-tested lesson plans complete with implementation guidelines. A 'how to' section describes a range of approaches showing how teachers can: Use drama for inclusion and citizenship Generate empathy in drama Link history and drama Begin using assessment of speaking and listening (and other English skills) through drama
Articles from Databases
- A Christmas Carol: Disability Conceptualised through Empathy and the Philosophy of 'Technologically Useful Bodies'.
- Language:
- English
- Authors:
- Vidovi, Ester
- Source:
- International Research in Children's Literature; Dec2013, Vol. 6 Issue 2, p176-191, 16p <EBSCO>
- Document Type:
- Article
- Publication Information:
- Edinburgh University Press
- Subject Terms:
- CAROLS
EMPATHY
DISABILITY studies
CULTURE
DICKENS, Charles, 1812-1870 - Author-Supplied Keywords:
- conceptual metaphors
cultural models
disability
empathy
useful bodies - Abstract:
- The article explores how two cultural models which were dominant in Great Britain during the Victorian era - the model based on the philosophy of 'technologically useful bodies' and the Christian model of empathy - were connected with the understanding of disability. Both cultural models are metaphorically constituted and based on the 'container' and 'up and down' image schemas respectively.<sup>1</sup> The intersubjective character of cultural models is foregrounded, in particular, in the context of conceiving of abstract concepts such as emotions and attitudes. The issue of disability is addressed from a cognitive linguistic approach to literary analysis while studying the reflections of the two cultural models on the portrayal of the main characters of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol. The studied cultural models appeared to be relatively stable, while their evaluative aspects proved to be subject to historical change. The article provides incentives for further study which could include research on the connectedness between, on one hand, empathy with fictional characters roused by reading Dickens's works and influenced by cultural models dominant during the Victorian period in Britain and, on the other hand, the contemporaries' actual actions taken to ameliorate the social position of the disabled in Victorian Britain. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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