Ms Marlene Saliba
Literature engages the readers’ spiritual, intellectual and emotional faculties and often leads to insights about life. In their involvement with stories, students discover how human values, attitudes, and choices may affect thoughts, feelings and actions. For example, they learn how oppression and disrespect for individual and group rights may lead to anger, rebellion and violence, and how love, dignity and justice are related to joy, stability and peace.
During literature lessons, critical analysis and discussion of literary texts, biblio-counselling and creative writing are all of vital importance to help identify and cultivate those positive values and skills which promote personal and societal well-being and development. The short talk considers such inter-related approaches that teachers may follow to foster values through literature.
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