The Literature Approach to Teaching Family Courses.

The article discusses the literature approaches used in teaching family courses. In using imaginative literature for family insights the educator is faced by a choice as to how much of the one or the other should be emphasized. This choice raises the issue of teaching goals in the family course or unit. There is broad consensus on assisting the student in developing an understanding of the relationships in modern marriage. One of the approach seeks to relate the emotional returns from reading fiction to the goal of intellectual growth.