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Drawing on developments in cognitive science, Bracher formulates pedagogical strategies for teaching literature in ways that develop students´ cognitive capabilities for cosmopolitanism, the pursuit of global equality and justice. Several staple classroom texts, such as Things Fall Apart, provide detailed examples for teaching practices.

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1. What is Cosmopolitanism, and How Can Education Promote It? 2. How Cognitive Science Can Help Us Educate for Cosmopolitanism 3. Correcting Ethnocentric Prototypes of Self and Other with Achebe´s Things Fall Apart 4. Developing Metacognition of Ethnocentrism with Lessing´s "The Old Chief Mshlanga" and Voltaire´s Candide 5. Correcting Faulty General Person-Schemas with Things Fall Apart, "The Old Chief Mshlanga," and Candide 6. Developing Cosmopolitan Action Scripts with Camus´s "The Guest" and Coetzee´s Disgrace

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Mark Bracher is Professor of English at Kent State University.

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