2019 Workshop Talk | 52:47 | All Grade Levels, Literature, Virtue, Character, Discipline
Summary
A central purpose of reading literature is ethical in that great stories teach us what it means to be genuinely human. Stories form our character by giving us a “wardrobe of images” that we draw upon to make moral choices in life. This wardrobe is the moral imagination. This session will define the moral imagination, explain why it is such an important part of a classical education, and explain why classic literature is an especially
effective means of cultivating it.
Speaker
Dr. Daniel B. Coupland is a professor and chairman of the education department and dean of the faculty at Hillsdale College . He earned a BA in Spanish from Liberty University, an MA in linguistics from Oakland University, and a PhD in education from Michigan State University . He began his career in education as a high school teacher . At Hillsdale College, he teaches courses on English grammar and classic children’s literature. In 2013, Dr. Coupland was named Hillsdale College’s “Professor of the Year.” In 2016, he was a resident scholar at the C. S. Lewis Study Centre (The Kilns) in Oxford, UK. In 2017, Dr. Coupland received the Emily Daugherty Award for Teaching Excellence. His research focuses on classic children’s literature and English grammar instruction . He is a co-author of an English grammar curriculum titled Well-Ordered Language: The Curious Child’s Guide to Grammar (published by Classical Academic Press) .
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The Association of Classical & Christian Schools presents Repairing the Ruins, the ACCS annual conference, copyright ACCS. You may make additional copies of this recording for use by your school but please do not sell any copies of the recording, or post it on the internet.
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