Cultural Literacy and Empathy in Education Practice
Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Chapter 1: What Is Cultural Literacy? -- 1.1 The Origins of "Cultural Literacy" -- 1.2 Cultural Literacy Redefined -- 1.3 Cultural Literacy as Literary Practice -- 1.4 Cultural Literacy and Intercultural Competence -- 1.5 Cultural Literacy, Experiential Learning and Reflection -- References -- Chapter 2: Cultural Literacy and the Case for Empathy -- 2.1 Reading and the Development of Empathy: An Uncertain Relationship -- 2.2 Defining Empathy -- 2.3 The Controversial Relationship Between Reading and Empathy -- 2.4 Identification and Perspective-Taking: Mirrors and Windows -- 2.5 Circle of Concern -- References -- Chapter 3: Destabilisation and Reflection -- 3.1 Destabilisation in Developing Cultural Literacy -- 3.2 Experiential Learning and Reflection -- 3.3 Developing Cultural Literacy: Cultural Readability in Action -- 3.4 Destabilising the Educator -- References -- Chapter 4: "Organic" Cultural Literacy-A Case Study -- 4.1 The Australian Context -- 4.2 Students from a Refugee Background in Australia -- 4.3 Cranbourne and Cranbourne Secondary College -- 4.4 The Story of Shabnam Safa: Destabilisation Through Difference -- 4.5 Destabilising the Curriculum: The Introduction of The Rugmaker of Mazar-e-Sharif -- ESL Classes -- VCE English -- 4.6 "Destabilising the Educator" in Practice -- 4.7 Teaching Strategies: Contextualisation, Collaborative Reflection and Perspective-Taking -- Contextualisation -- Collaborative and Shared Reflection -- Perspective-Taking -- 4.8 Impact: A Shift in Perspective -- References -- Chapter 5: Embedding Cultural Literacy in Higher Education -- 5.1 Open-Space Learning Techniques -- Warm-up: Clapping -- A Long Short Walk -- Theory Building -- A Gastronomic Tour of the World! -- Let's Go Bananas! -- Still Image or Tableau -- Status Workshop -- Perspective-Taking.
