It might have been pure coincidence, but last month, Bill Drayton, speaking at Toronto’s MaRS Discovery District and Bill Gates, at Stanford University in California, made separate cases for why empathy is so important to the social change movement.
By Verity Dimock
If a woman doesn’t want to have sex with her husband but does it anyway to please him, is she codependent or compassionate? That was the subject of debate a few days ago among some friends and I. Half said she was codependent and half said compas…
Edutopia recently curated several recent resources on empathy.Lauren Owen has a piece titled, “Empathy in the Classroom: Why Should I Care?”…That year, empathy became a central component of my classroom instruction. Given that …
We will discuss self-transformation and the ability to understand the self through engaged learning and intentional travel.Although we share our experiences studying abroad in both Rwanda and Serbia/Bosnia/Kosovo, we argue that in essence, it does not …
Teachers Brianna Crowley and Barry Saide offer advice on developing an empathic mindset in an education culture that doesn’t always value it but desperately needs it.Empathy is a complex concept and a difficult skill. It’s time for educator…
