Overview
- Explores how narrative fictions can be used to teach professionals in higher education
- Uses various case studies to examine the impact narrative fictions can have upon development
- Evaluates how using fiction can encourage the development of interpersonal skills
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This book analyses how narrative fictions can be used by faculty and staff in the teaching of professionals in higher education. As professional life becomes ever more demanding, this book draws together the work of researchers and practitioners who have explored the tremendous impact that narrative fictions – novels, short stories, drama and poetry – can have on development. The editors and contributors posit that fiction can help professionals imagine new ways of being, reinvent their roles and tackle problems without a road map. Using fiction can also provide a safe place for the exploration of ethics and decision making, as well as furnishing tools for the development of empathy and engagement by offering vicarious experiences of drastically different lives and situations. A medium that by its very nature contains a multiplicity of interpretations, using fiction in professional education can enhance the education of professionals working in a range of disciplines, including health,education, social care, law and science.
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Christine Jarvis is Professor of Adult Education at the University of Huddersfield, UK. Her research interests combine literary studies, cultural studies and education, and she has published widely on the impact of literature upon student worldviews and children’s and young adult fiction.
Patricia Gouthro is Professor in Graduate Studies in Lifelong Learning at Mount Saint Vincent University, Canada. Her research interests focus on adult and higher education and she has published extensively on lifelong learning and fiction writing.
Patricia Gouthro is Professor in Graduate Studies in Lifelong Learning at Mount Saint Vincent University, Canada. Her research interests focus on adult and higher education and she has published extensively on lifelong learning and fiction writing.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Professional Education with Fiction Media
Book Subtitle: Imagination for Engagement and Empathy in Learning
Editors: Christine Jarvis, Patricia Gouthro
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17693-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-17692-1Published: 24 July 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-17695-2Published: 15 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-17693-8Published: 15 July 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 251
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 3 illustrations in colour
Topics: Professional & Vocational Education, Lifelong Learning/Adult Education, Learning & Instruction, Media Research, Media Studies