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The Course aims to answer the following questions:
1. How can Literature, viewed as a relational expression par excellence, contribute to help educators and learners rethink behavioural attitudes, ethical values, and citizenship paradigms, in diverse contexts such as schools, libraries, families, health centres, nursing homes, prisons, among others?
2. How can Books help build a culture based on values that will lead to the integral formation of citizens (cf. https://www.dge.mec.pt/educacao-para-cidadania-linhas-orientadoras and http://www.dge.mec.pt/sites/default/files/ECidadania/educacao_desenvolvimento/Documentos/referencial_de_educacao_para_o_desenvolvimento.pdf) in areas so pertinent as Human Rights, Multiculturality, Gender Stereotypes, Attitudes and Values, Animal Rights, Environmental Awareness, Social Justice, Affections and Sexuality, Violence(s) and Alternative Paths to Peace?
3. What are the essential components of a Reading in which the reflection of and on the word can c |