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Using ethnographic research to improve students’ qualitative literacy

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In distinguishing fact from opinion, quantitative information is often seen as more reliable, but Mario Luis Small, Grafstein Family Professor of Sociology, wants students also to see the value of qualitative data for assessing such claims.

Library Reserves (Canvas)

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Canvas, Harvard’s learning management system, allows instructors to submit requests for course readings to a supporting Harvard library.

Teaching the Moral Leader: A Literature-Based Leadership Course

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Whether instructors are interested in experimenting with literature-based learning in one course module or an entire curriculum, Sandra Sucher’s Teaching the Moral Leader is a practical guide, available through the Harvard Library and where books are sold...

Research: Reading fiction and reading minds: The role of simulation in the default network

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Researchers demonstrated that reading fiction plays a role in enhancing readers' social cognition by activating the default network, known to support capacity to simulate hypothetical scenes, spaces and mental states.

Learning through literature: ‘Closer to life as it is really lived’

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Sandra Sucher, MBA Class of 1966 Professor of Management Practice, teaches “The Moral Leader” at Harvard Business School with a literature-based approach. The MBA elective, introduced by Professor Emeritus Robert Coles in the 1980s, has since been taught...