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Rethinking Multicultural Education for the Next Generation

The New Empathy and Social Justice

Hardcover

Published: 1st June 2012
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Rethinking Multicultural Education for the Next Generation builds on the legacy of social justice multicultural education, while recognizing the considerable challenges of reaching today's college students. By drawing on breakthrough research in two fields - neuroscience and animal studies - Nadine Dolby argues that empathy is an underlying element of all living beings. Dolby shows how this commonality can provide a scaffolding for building an exciting new approach to developing multicultural and global consciousness, one that has the potential to transform how our students see and relate to the world around them. This book features classroom vignettes and reflections, discussion of research with pre-service teachers on the concept of empathy, and pedagogical suggestions for fostering the new empathy in students.

Incorporating discussions of animal emotions, sustainability, and our responsibilities to all living creatures and the planet, Dolby challenges multicultural educators to rethink both curriculum and pedagogy and to begin new and bolder conversations about how empathy for humans, animals, and the planet must be part of a new approach to teaching.

Acknowledgementsp. vii
Multicultural Teacher Education for a New Generation: The Challenge of Social Justice and the Rise of Empathyp. 1
Who Are Our Students?p. 13
Multicultural Teacher Education: Past, Present, and Futurep. 29
The New Empathy: Rethinking Human Naturep. 43
Empathy for All: Expanding the Moral Circlep. 65
Reaching Our Students: The Journey to Empathyp. 87
The Road from Empathy to Justicep. 107
A Pedagogy for Erin and Brittany: Towards a New Multicultural Teacher Educationp. 123
Appendixp. 133
Notesp. 137
Referencesp. 139
Indexp. 151
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ISBN: 9780415896061
ISBN-10: 0415896061
Audience: Professional
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Number Of Pages: 166
Published: 1st June 2012
Dimensions (cm): 23.7 x 15.7  x 1.3
Weight (kg): 0.396