Teaching Readers in Post-Truth America

Teaching Readers in Post-Truth America shows how postsecondary teachers can engage with the phenomenon of “post-truth.” Drawing on research from the fields of educational and cognitive psychology, human development, philosophy, and education, Ellen C. Carillo demonstrates that teaching critical reading is a strategic and targeted response to the current climate.   Readers in this post-truth culture are under unprecedented pressure to interpret an overwhelming quantity of texts in many forms