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SnapEd Regional Training: Empathy

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

Other People's Shoes: Empathy in Education

SnapEd Regional Training 2016

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My Story

(That's not me)

On teaching

(Also not me)

"It is customary for adults to forget how hard and dull and long school is. The learning by memory all the basic things one must know is the most incredible and unending effort. Learning to read is probably the most difficult and revolutionary thing that happens to the human brain and if you don't believe that, watch an illiterate adult try to do so. School is not easy and it is not for the most part very much fun, but then, if you are very lucky, you may find a teacher. Three real teachers in a lifetime is the very best of luck."

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EXERCISE

Your REAL Teacher

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Education is the process of one human being, gathering together with other human beings, to discover the true nature of being human.
- Cyril Harvey, Guilford College

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EQ

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Emotional Intelligence predicts:

Success in school
Success in careers
Success in relationships
Success in life

Goleman, D. (1995). Emotional intelligence. New York: Bantam.

ALSO, strong EQ skills correlate to

Better physical health
Improved sense of well being (which also supports objectively measured improved health)
Improved coping with (and survival rates through!) life-threatening illness

Reuven Bar-On (2012). The Impact of Emotional Intelligence on Health and Wellbeing, Emotional Intelligence -
New Perspectives and Applications, Prof. Annamaria Di Fabio (Ed.), ISBN: 978-953-307-838-0, InTech,
Available from: http://www.intechopen.com/books/emotional-intelligence-new-perspectives-and...

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Social & Emotional Learning

http://www.casel.org/

Dan Goleman

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Skills shown to impact health and wellbeing

Self-regard
Self-actualization
Emotion management
Optimism
Happiness

http://www.casel.org/

Dan Goleman

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Empathy

What is it?

Hoffman, M.L. (2000). Empathy and moral development. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press.

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Let's ask Audrey

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOjL6baOwu0

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Empathy is "feeling WITH another."

Nancy Eisenberg and Janet Strayer

Eisenberg, N. & Strayer, J. (1987). Critical issues in the study of empathy. In N. Eisenberg & J. Strayer, Empathy and its development (pp. 3-13). New York, NY: Cambridge Press

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Empathy

What ISN'T it?

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"a contiguous sharing of emotions"

Other key terms: Personal Distress

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Evwgu369Jw

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Constructs of Empathy: Cognitive

"Thinking," imagining, perspective-taking, deliberate, language-based

Eisenberg, N. & Strayer, J. (1987). Critical issues in the study of empathy. In N. Eisenberg & J. Strayer, Empathy and its development (pp. 3-13). New York, NY: Cambridge Press.

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Constructs of Empathy: Affective

"Feeling,"automatic, unwitting, non-language based

Hoffman, M.L. (2000). Empathy and moral development. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press.

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Constructs of Empathy: Mirror Neuron System

Rizzolatti, G. (1996). Premotor cortex and the recognition of motor actions. Cognitive
Brain Research, 3, 131-141.

Rizzolatti, G. & Craighero L. (2004). The mirror neuron system. Annual Review of
Neuroscience, 27: 169-192.

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Development of Empathy

Eisenberg, N., & Fabes, R. A. (1991). Prosocial behavior and empathy: A multi-method
developmental perspective. In M. S. Clark (Ed.), Prosocial behavior (pp. 34-61).
Newbury Park, CA: Sage.

Eisenberg, N., Spinrad, T., & Sadovsky, A. (2006). Empathy-related responding in children. In M. Killen and J. Smetana (Eds.), Handbook of moral development (pp. 517-550). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Hoffman, M.L. (2000). Empathy and moral development. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press.

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Untitled Slide

Stepien, K. & Baerstein, A. (2006). Educating for empathy. Journal of General Internal
Medicine, 21, 524-530.

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The empathy deficit

"It's hard to empathize with people who have different values than you"

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Highly Empathic Educators

Bridge gaps
Meet students where they are
Create inclusive educational spaces
Foster improved student outcomes
Foster improved student behavior

http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/education-uprising/raise-your-hand-if-you...

McAllister, G. & Irvine, J. J. (2002). The role of empathy in teaching culturally diverse students: A qualitative study of teachers' beliefs. Journal of Teacher Education, 53(5), 433-443.

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Associated Student Outcomes of High Empathy

Pro-social behavior
Increased altruism
Increased cooperation
Reduced agression and prejudice
Improved academic achievement
Improved peer relationships (defenders)
Improved stress management and sense of well-being

Eisenberg, N., & Fabes, R. A. (1991). Prosocial behavior and empathy: A multi-method
developmental perspective. In M. S. Clark (Ed.), Prosocial behavior (pp. 34-61).
Newbury Park, CA: Sage.

Eisenberg, N., & Fabes, R. A. (1998). Prosocial development. In W. Damon & N. Eisenberg,
(Eds.), Handbook of child psychology, vol 3: Social, emotional and personality
Development (pp. 701-775). New York: John Riley.

Fesbach, N.D. & Fesbach, S. Empathy and education. In J. Decety & W. Ickes (Eds.), The
social neuroscience of empathy (pp. 85-98). Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

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Associated Outcomes of Deficient Empathy

Anti-social behavior
Deliquency
Child abuse
Bullying
Victimization
Second-hand stress/low sense of well-being

Woods, S., Wolke D., Nowicki, C., & Hall, L. (2007) Emotion recognition abilities and empathy of victims of bullying. Child Abuse & Neglect, 33, 307–311.

Ellis, P. (1982). Empathy: a factor in anti-social behavior. Journal of Abnormal Child
Psychology, 10: 1 , 123-134.

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Empathic Relationships

"mutually shared knowledge"

De Wied, M., Branje, S., & Meeus, W. (2007). Empathy and conflict resolution in friendship
relations among adolescents. Aggressive Behavior, 33, 48–55.

Gleason, K.A., Jens-Campbell, L., & Ickes, W. (2009). The role of empathic accuracy in
adolescent peer relations and adjustment. Personal and Social Psychology Bulletin, 35, 8,
997-1011.

Goubert, L., Craig, K., & Buysse, A. Perceiving others in pain: Experimental and clinical
evidence on the role of empathy. In J. Decety and W. Ickes (Eds.), The Social Neuroscience of Empathy (pp. 215-233) Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

Graham, T. (1994). Gender, relationship, and target differences in empathic accuracy. Unpublished master’s thesis, University of Texas, Arlington.

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