Teaching Ethics through Literature The Significance of Ethical Criticism in a Global Age

Teaching Ethics through Literature provides in-depth understanding of a new and exciting shift in the fields of English education, Literature, Language Arts, and Literacy through exploring their connections with ethics. The book pioneers an approach to integrating ethics in the teaching of literature. This has become increasingly relevant and necessary in our globally connected age. A key feature of the book is its integration of theory and practice. It begins with a historical survey of the emergence of the ethical turn in Literature education and grounds this on the ideas of influential Ethical Philosophers and Literature scholars. Most importantly, it provides insights into how teachers can engage students in ethical concerns and apply practices of Ethical Criticism using rich on-the-ground case studies of high school Literature teachers in Australia, Singapore and the United States.

1. Introduction: The Significance of Ethics in the Teaching of Literature 2. Objectives: Ethics as the Philosophical End of Literature Education 3. Curriculum: Developing Cosmopolitan-mindedness through Ethical Inquiry 4. Texts: Applying Ethical Criticism to Interpreting Literature 5. Pedagogy: Building a Critical-Ethical Community of Readers 6. Values: Developing Ethical Character through Dispositional Routines 7. Conclusion: Literature Education and the Hospitable Imagination

Suzanne S. Choo is Associate Professor in the English Language and Literature Group at National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Her book Reading the world, the globe, and the cosmos: Approaches to teaching literature for the twenty-first century (Peter Lang, 2013) was awarded the 2014 Critics Choice Book Award by the American Educational Studies Association. She co-edited the book Literature Education in the Asia-Pacific: Policies, Practices and Perspectives in Global Times (Routledge, 2018).