Peninsula College English Professor, Dr. Janet Lucas, will take listeners on a cross-disciplinary road trip to critically explore compassion and empathy, focusing on the controversial and complex ways they affect the classroom and the media, in her multimedia Studium Generale lecture,
“The Art and Science of Empathy: Its Role in the Classroom and in Our Lives,
New research highlights how humans can cultivate compassion. Empathy and compassion, similar to physical strength and academic skills, has proven to not be something you are necessarily born with but can be enhanced through studying, training, an…
But there are also some kids, like me, who actually had maybe a bit too much empathy, and needed to be told their feelings were just as important as everybody else’s. Refer to my mother for early stories of my sensitivity: when Billie Piper and D…
Most people don’t have any problem with seeing compassion as a thoroughly commendable quality. It seems to refer to an amalgam of unquestionably good qualities: kindness, mercy, tenderness, benevolence, understanding, empathy, sympathy, and fello…
Some children are intuitively compassionate and empathetic, even in a competitive society where these virtues are often not celebrated or encouraged. Compassion and empathy are characteristics of nurturing behaviour. Providing a place where kids…
