Educating for Empathy: Literacy Learning and Civic Engagement

by Nicole Mirra

Educating for Empathy presents a compelling framework for thinking about the purpose and practice of literacy education in a politically polarized world. Mirra proposes a model of critical civic empathy that encourages secondary ELA teachers to consider how issues of power and inequity play out in the literacy classroom and how to envision literacy practices as a means of civic engagement. The book reviews core elements of ELA instruction--response...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807759147
• ISBN13: 9780807759141
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 8.9"