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  • Compassion-Cultivating Pedagogy: Advancing Social Justice by Improving Social Cognition through Literary Study

    Author(s):
    Mark Bracher (see profile)
    Contributor(s):
    Deborah Barnbaum, Michael Byron, Tammy Clewell, Nancy Docherty, Françoise Massardier-Kenney, David Pereplyotchik, Susan Roxburgh, Elizabeth Smith-Pryor
    Date:
    2022
    Group(s):
    TC Cognitive and Affect Studies, TM Literary and Cultural Theory, TM The Teaching of Literature
    Subject(s):
    Literature--Study and teaching, Social justice, Empathy, Psychology and literature, Cognitive psychology, Cognitive science
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    compassion, Social Cognition, higher education studies, General Education, Literary education, Pedagogy of literature, Cognitive literary studies, Cognitive science
    Permanent URL:
    http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/n062-6424
    Abstract:
    Previous studies suggest that narrative fiction promotes social justice by increasing empathy, but critics have argued that the partiality of empathy severely limits its effectiveness as an engine of social justice, and that what needs to be developed is universal compassion rather than empathy. We created Compassion-Cultivating Pedagogy (CCP) to target the development of two social-cognition capabilities that entail compassion: (1) recognition of self-other overlap and (2) cognizance of the situational, uncontrollable causes of bad character, bad behavior, and bad life-outcomes. Employing a pre/post within- and between-subjects design, we found that students in the CCP classes, but not students in conventionally taught classes, improved in these two areas of social cognition and also exhibited increased preference for compassionate social policies for stigmatized groups. This finding suggests that pedagogy can play a significant role in literature’s contribution to social justice, and that further efforts to develop and test pedagogies for improving social cognition are warranted.
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    Published as:
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    Pub. DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1075/ssol.19007.bra
    Publisher:
    John Benjamins
    Pub. Date:
    published online June 30, 2020
    Journal:
    Scientific Study of Literature
    Volume:
    9
    Issue:
    2
    Page Range:
    7 - 162
    ISSN:
    2210-4372
    Status:
    Published
    Last Updated:
    9 months ago
    License:
    All Rights Reserved

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