Of Theory of Mind and Scaffolding: Using John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men to Develop Upper Secondary Students’ Theory of Mind
This research project presents an example of how students and teachers can work together to analyze Of Mice and Men. In this paper, critical theory is used as a form of scaffolding, in order to both develop students’ Theory of Mind (ToM) and make canonical literature more accessible. The research questions answered in this paper are concerned with asking how critical theory can be applied to the n