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 methodology1. Reading for pleasure: from narrative competence to character educationRosalía Baena2. In dialogue with Antigone: Ricoeur’s theory of reading as a tool for designing a core texts courseJosé Manuel Mora-Fandos3. 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 Kunz4. Character education at any age? Cicero on the lifelong pursuit of intellectual and moral virtueÁlvaro Sánchez-Ostiz5. Character education and assessment in practice. A case study of a European liberal arts collegeTessa Leesen and Alkeline van LenningPart 2- Character education and core texts in literature and philosophy6. From character to parable and allegory: varieties of moral imagination in fictional literatureDavid Carr7. Virtue, vice, and saintliness in The Brothers KaramazovNancy E. Snow8. Literature and practical wisdom. An experience with The Catcher in the RyeRosa Fernández Urtasun9. Interiorizing ethics through science fiction. Brave New World as a paradigmatic case studyRaquel Cascales and Luis E. Echarte10. Friendship, Self-Knowledge, and Core Texts. A Pathway for Character Education at UniversityAna Romero-Iribas11. Teaching humility in Confucius’ Analects: questioning the value of deferenceYang YeungIndex