Professional Education with Fiction Media: Imagination for Engagement and Empathy in Learning

✍ Scribed by Christine Jarvis, Patricia Gouthro

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing; Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 261
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xv
The Educational Power of Fiction—An Interdisciplinary Exploration (Christine Jarvis)....Pages 1-26
Using Fictional Characters to Challenge Ageist Assumptions and Negative Stereotyping (Catherine Hayes)....Pages 27-47
Fictionalised Stories Co-produced with Disadvantaged Children and Young People: Uses with Professionals (Candice Satchwell)....Pages 49-69
Enhancing E-Learner Engagement by Using Narrative Fiction in Online Nursing and Health Disciplines Courses (Beth Perry, Margaret Edwards, Katherine Janzen)....Pages 71-92
Using Harry Potter to Enhance the Critical Appreciation of Law or Questioning Whether the Rule of Law Is as Much a Reality as the Crumpled Horned Snorkack (Samantha Halliday, in conversation with Christine Jarvis)....Pages 93-106
Tales from the Butterfly Café: Imagined Dialogues with Fictional Characters for Research and Practice (Randee Lipson Lawrence)....Pages 107-128
The Use of a Bookclub to Enhance Science Literacy and Understanding of Infectious Disease Epidemiology (Joanna Verran)....Pages 129-157
Understanding Social Media Learning Through Postmodern Literature (Cheryl Reynolds)....Pages 159-182
Educating Professionals to Think Critically and Creatively: Using Fiction to Teach in Professional Studies (Patricia Gouthro)....Pages 183-203
Shape-Shifting and Stories: Professionalism and Education with Doctor Who (Ann Harris)....Pages 205-228
Fairy Tale Endings? (Christine Jarvis, Patricia Gouthro)....Pages 229-242
Back Matter ....Pages 243-251

✦ Subjects

Education; Professional and Vocational Education; Lifelong Learning/Adult Education; Learning and Instruction; Media Research; Media Studies