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- Copyright
- © 2014 by Eric Leake
- ISSN
- 1531-4200
- eISSN
- 1533-6255
- DOI
- 10.1215/15314200-2715850
- Publisher site
- See Article on Publisher Site
Abstract
R e v i ew s A Cognitive Route to Social Justice Mark Bracher’s Radical Pedagogies Literature and Social Justice: Protest Novels, Cognitive Politics, and Schema Criticism By Mark Bracher. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2013. Eric Leake Early in the last decade, while others were debating the merits and politics of ideological critique and critical pedagogy, Mark Bracher was unabashedly pushing for value- laden pedagogies. Yes, he argued, some values are better and more worthy of teaching than others, and educators need to teach those values and be confident in them. Bracher drew upon psychoanalytical theory and criticism to argue for social change through the education of the emo - tions and student identity structures. In his new book, Literature and Social Justice, Bracher builds upon these arguments and turns to cognitive science to help effect the changes that cultural studies pedagogies have yet to deliver. He labels his approach “schema criticism,” in his words, “a method for act-i vating, maximizing, and extending the schema- altering processes that certain literary texts are capable of initiating but are rarely able, by themselves, to bring to completion” (288). In his view, literature really can make us better people and help
Journal
Pedagogy – Duke University Press
Published: Oct 1, 2014