History or Hogwarts? Learning from Fiction to Transform Factual Reading

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Explore how the immersive power of fictional worlds can be applied to educational texts to help students learn, remember, and care about what they read. This perspective examines the intersection of cognitive science and pedagogy to reveal how we can transform mandated reading into meaningful experience. From mdpi.com/3042-8084/2/3/16, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Audio narration of the original text.

Contents

1. 1Abstract1:36
2. 21. Introduction5:45
3. 32. The Allure of Fictional Worlds3:52
4. 43. Why Do People Enjoy Reading Fiction?4:21
5. 54. From Mechanism to Design: Making Factual Reading More Engaging2:54
6. 64.1. Narrative Schema3:21
7. 74.2. Mental Imagery4:34
8. 84.3. Prior Knowledge1:13
9. 94.4. Self-Relevance2:18
10. 104.5. Topic Interest3:10
11. 114.6. Social Reading1:43
12. 125. What Cannot Be Fully Changed?2:44
13. 136. Assessment and Empirical Testing3:44
14. 147. Conclusions1:27