How a Fourteenth-Century Text Teaches Twenty-First-Century Skills: New Reasons for Teaching "The Canterbury Tales" in the Digital Age.

Author / Editor
Griffin, Elaine.

Title
How a Fourteenth-Century Text Teaches Twenty-First-Century Skills: New Reasons for Teaching "The Canterbury Tales" in the Digital Age.

Published
Once and Future Classroom 15, no. 1 (2019): 81-94.

Description
Contemplates the value of teaching CT in contemporary classrooms, focusing on how it can be used to encourage diverse outlooks and help close the "empathy gap," aiding students to "develop the cognitive and character skills that support their academic learning and foster the development of their social and emotional skills." Comments most extensively on GP and WBPT.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism
Canterbury Tales--General
General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
Wife of Bath and Her Tale