Publications
Rosalía Baena (2022). Reading for pleasure: from narrative competence to character education. In E. Brooks, E. Cohen de Lara, Á. Sánchez-Ostiz, J.M. Torralba, eds. Literature and Character Education in Universities. Theory, Method, and Textual Analysis. London: Routledge.
Jonathan Brant, Edward Brooks and Michael Lamb, eds. (2022). Cultivating virtue in the University. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Edward Brooks and Michael Lamb, eds. (2024). The arts of leading. Perspectives from the humanities and the liberal arts. Washington DC: Georgetown University Press.
Emma Cohen de Lara (2023). Together reading for pleasure. In Van der Laan et. al., Liber Amicorum Alkeline van Lenning. Open Press Tilburg University.
Emma Cohen de Lara and Tessa Leesen (2025). Rethinking resilience in character education. Insights from literature and philosophy. London: Routledge.
Olivia Fialho (2019). What is literature for? The role of transformative reading. Cogent Arts and Humanities, vol. 6, no. 1.
Álvaro Sánchez-Ostiz (2022). Character education at any age? Cicero on the lifelong pursuit of intellectual and moral virtue. In E. Brooks, E. Cohen de Lara, Á. Sánchez-Ostiz, J.M. Torralba, eds. Literature and Character Education in Universities. Theory, Method, and Textual Analysis. London: Routledge.
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Recommendations
Karen E. Bohlin (2005). Teaching character education through literature. Awakening the moral imagination in secondary classrooms. London: Routledge.
David Carr (2005). On the contribution of literature and the arts to the educational cultivation of moral virtue, feeling and emotion. Journal of Moral Education, 34:2, 137-151.
Laura D’Olimpio, P. Panos, A.P. Thompson, eds. (2022). Educating character through the arts. London: Routledge.
Robert DiYanni (2021). You are what you read. A practical guide to reading well. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Chris Higgins (2024). undeclared. a philosophy of formative higher education. Cambridge MA: The MIT Press.
Zena Hitz (2020). Lost in thought. The hidden pleasures of an intellectual life. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Kristján Kristjánsson (2021). Flourishing as the aim of education. A neo-Aristotelian View. London: Routledge.
Martha Nussbaum (2010). Not for profit. Why democracy needs the humanities. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Roosevelt Montás (2021). Rescuing Socrates. How the great books changed my life and why they matter for a new generation. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Karen Swallow Prior (2018). On reading well. Finding the good life through great books. Grand Rapids MI: Brazos Press.