Dan Roberts is Founder and Executive Director of the Red Nose Foundation in Indonesia which is transcending boundaries through play. Red Nose Foundation provides children with a place to learn and play together, no matter one’s race, religion or economic standing.
Through the structured study of physical arts (circus), the children learn that a success is celebrated as a team, and a failure is to be challenged together. Red Nose Foundation uses a three-step model to support the development of empathy in our students and to teach them skills to build and reach their dreams. The first stage is pure arts exploration. The program was one of winners of the Activating Empathy competition.
Start Empathy, an initiative of Ashoka, is a community of individuals and institutions dedicated to building a future in which every child masters empathy.
Empathy is the ability to understand the feelings and perspectives of others, and to use that understanding to guide one’s actions. Empathy is critical both to individual human development and to our collective ability to solve problems and build a stronger society...
Ashoka’s vision is an Everyone a Changemaker world: one that responds quickly and effectively to social challenges, one where each individual has the freedom, confidence and societal support to address any social problem and drive change.
A closer look at the underlying conditions that allow for bullying to thrive.
Bullying is a serious obstacle to learning in America’s schools, but the answer won’t be found in any anti-bullying strategy. Instead, we need solutions that are pro-social. That is, they promote healthy interactions among young people and make cooperation, empathy and teamwork habitual.
Those are not just the characteristics of school without bullying. Those are the same qualities that young people need to thrive in the 21st century.
If we can create those positive conditions in all of our schools, we’ll do more than put bullying out of bounds. We’ll put success in play.
Patricia (Tish) Jennings is Co-Leader of the "Program on Empathy Awareness and Compassion in Education (PEACE)" at Penn State University. "The PEACE area seeks to promote health and wellbeing in children, youth and families through the scientific understanding and promotion of awareness, compassion and empathy. The program includes faculty, research associates and students whose work focuses on developing a strong multidisciplinary science in this emerging area.
the evidence of empathy — the ability to identify with the emotions of others. It is a virtue with a biological basis. While displaying empathy for others, people employ the same neural circuits they use when considering themselves. It is the bridge between the first person and third person — a bridge washed out in people with anti-social personality disorders.
The political role of empathy sometimes comes in for criticism, particularly among conservatives. "I feel your pain" smacks of too much Clinton, too much Oprah. Empathy is dismissed as a source of naive, counterproductive public policy, which it can be.
The arguments you need to explain why empathy is a key to life-long learning...
Look no further than the role of empathy in human-centered design, in conflict resolution, in the boardroom---yes, even in the preservation of earth (don’t take our word for it)---and you’ll realize that empathy matters for reasons beyond the fact that learning outcomes improve (though they do: read on). In fact, we’re dedicating an entire site to helping make that case, and to equipping parents, teachers, and everyone in between with the tools they need to practice
StartEmpathy is a community of individuals and institutions dedicated to cultivating empathy in the 21st Century. This website is meant as a platform to facilitate empathy learning in our schools and in our homes.
We define empathy as the ability to understand the feelings and perspectives of others, and to use that understanding to guide one’s actions. Our premise is that empathy is critical both to individual human development and to our collective ability to solve problems and build a stronger society.
Educating Hearts: A Districtwide Initiative to Teach How to Care... In Alaska, the Anchorage School District's investment in social and emotional learning is paying off both socially and academically.
Vinciane Rycroft considers the value of teaching compassion in schools...
Many commentators are now calling for children to be educated in empathy and compassion. Bill Drayton for example, one of the fathers of social entrepreneurship, calls on educators to ensure that every young person learns applied empathy to avoid being marginalised...
An education in empathy gives young people opportunities to acknowledge the perspective of others. An education in compassion brings it one step further by identifying our fleeting response to an individual’s suffering and transforming it into a sustained altruistic attitude.
There's a new subject being taught in public schools and some colleges today that wasn't around when I went to school. It's called empathy. Apparently the plan is to teach kids to have empathy for other people in the world. It's a sort of variation of teaching multiculturalism.
In another area, I know a father who was denied custody of his children because the judge ruled he didn't have enough empathy. She had no credentials for making that judgment, but Family Court judges can issue any order they want. There is no scientific definition of empathy, so any empathy decision is based on the biases and prejudices of the instructor or judge...
There is no scientific definition of empathy, so any empathy decision is based on the biases and prejudices of the instructor or judge.
[Philis Schlafly talks about her concerns about teaching empathy in the shools]
One of the benefits of Exquisite Learning is that it can be used to help students improve their empathy skills. Empathy is one aspect of social and emotional learning that involves understanding and being sensitive to the feelings, thoughts, and experiences of another person. Often times, these feelings are communicated non-verbally or through body language.
The roots of empathy can be traced all the way back to infancy (Goleman, 98.) As children grow older, their empathy skills can be shaped by seeing how others react when someone else is distressed; by intimating what they see, children develop a repertoire of empathic response, especially in helping other people who are distressed (Goleman, 99.)
Empathy is also a base for moral judgment and action. Many people's altruistic actions when helping a distressed person are strongly tied to their empathic feelings.
I uploaded an interview with Nadine Dolby Professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, College of Education, Purdue University Author: Rethinking Multicultural Education for the Next Generation: The New Empathy and Social Justice
In her wonderful new book, she writes about how to restructure Multicultural Education so that it's based on empathy!
'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.'
Ashoka — a global association of the world’s leading social entrepreneurs – has launched a new initiative called Start Empathy. Start Empathy is a community of individuals and institutions dedicated to cultivating empathy in the 21st Century. Our premise is that empathy is a critical skill both for individual human development and for our collective ability to solve problems and build a stronger society.
Stay tuned for the upcoming launch of Start Empathy on the web, where we’ll spark a conversation about why empathy matters and how we can cultivate it together, starting in our schools today!
After careful deliberation, 14 winners have been chosen from 628 entries as innovative models with strong potential to scale. Together, along with every entrant from the competition, we hope to create a world guided by empathy and collaboration, one led by empowered young people who succeed in the classroom and in every walk of life.
Check out the 14 winners:
Judges' Awards ---------------
Literacy and Cultural Connections (Changing Worlds)
How can we stop bullying through student empathy? (No Bully)
People's Choice Award: -------------------------
Sports for Sharing (United Nations Youth Association, Mexico)
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See interviews with competition applicants at our conference page at: How to Nurture, Foster and Teach Empathy in the Education System? http://j.mp/JNDbGl
Laura Zax is Editor of the StartEmpathy.org website. Start Empathy, an initiative of Ashoka, is a community of individuals and institutions dedicated to building a future in which every child masters empathy.
Laura is also CEO & Co-Founder - The Nighttime Adventure Society. "I make music and mischief".
"Empathy is critical both to individual human development and to our collective ability to solve problems and build a stronger society. Cultivating empathy can start with really simple actions, like taking the time to stop, breathe, and listen when your child comes to you with a problem. It can start with a bedtime story. It can start by understanding what your strengths are as a school or as a teacher, and in honing in on ways you can embed empathy into your teaching, culture, and behavior. The bottom line: it can start today."
Anthony Cody spent 24 years working in Oakland schools, 18 of them as a science teacher at a high needs middle school. He is National Board certified, and now leads workshops with teachers focused on Project Based Learning. With education at a crossroads, he invites you to join him in a dialogue on education reform and teaching for change and deep learning. He organized the SaveOurSchoolsMarch.com to Washington DC.
Educational psychologist Dr. Michele Borba provides tips in the book Mobilizing Bystanders to Stand Up to Bullies and on her blog: “Bystanders often don’t intervene because they don’t want to make things worse or assume the victim doesn’t want help,” she writes. “But research shows that if witnesses know a victim feels upset or wants help they are more likely to step in.” Here are the three steps she recommends:
Most teacher professional development focuses on curriculum delivery. CARE for Teachers is different because it promotes core skills and dispositions teachers need to create and maintain supportive learning environments while retaining their well-being and love of teaching.
Take a look inside The Mission Hill School, a Boston public pilot school, where education focuses on the whole child rather than the test. "We are not just including people, we are embracing people. This idea of empathy is just crucial."
Starts talking about collaboration and empathy from the 3 min mark onward.
A revolution in learning. Students have more independence. The school has an open space. Focuses on life skills and not on memorizing facts. Creating a climate of trust, inclusion, support. They have five habits of mind, evidence, conjecture, connections, relevance, empathizing with the viewpoint of others. The science of mirror neurons. Students need to practice empathy.
Two years ago, at a meeting on science and education, experts challenged video game manufacturers to develop games that emphasize kindness and compassion instead of violence and aggression.
Community building in the classroom takes time but it may trickle up. It may help create a more compassionate community. Empathy for a scrawny kid may eventually trickle up and make us more tolerant of the politically obnoxious person next door.Empathy for the kid who doesn’t wear designer clothes may eventually trickle up and make us more understanding toward the homeless.
Perhaps it is not just the kids who need teaching.
Let’s dream of schools where empathy and compassion yield popularity points. Let’s keep trying to create more compassionate communities. And let’s hope it trickles up to our nation.
Director and Co-Founder at Mind with Heart, an educators' network for a secular education in empathy and compassion. The main focus is on creating the conditions for young people to come to a firm commitment to empathy and compassion based on their own reasoning, experience and initiative.
Hosting the Conference: Empathy and Compassion in Society. The Conference will address three topics: 1. Compassion and empathy: scientific definitions, misunderstandings and function. 2. Compassion, the benefits at the personal level. 3. Compassion in action and social cohesion
Teachers who learn to collaborate, resolve conflicts, and respect multiple perspectives become powerful role models for students.
The documentary Bully has forced teachers and principals to renew their efforts to find ways to end bullying in schools. Although experts have identified steps schools should take to end bullying, the broader challenge—creating a culture of empathy—remains. According to educator Vinciane Rycroft, co-founder of U.K.-based charity Mind with Heart, if teachers want to address the root of the problem they must become models of empathy, altruism, and compassion.
Victoria Kindle Hodson, MA holds degrees in education and psychology and has been a classroom teacher in public, private, and Montessori schools—preschool through college. She is the co-founder and co-director of Kindle-Hart Communication and the Learning Success Institute. Victoria is an educator, author, consultant, curriculum developer, and co-designer of The No Fault Zone Game.
International Online Conference on: How Can We Build a Culture of Empathy and Compassion?
Panel# 002-A: How does The No-Fault Zone Game teach and support creating a culture of empathy in schools
The No-Fault Zone Game helps create a culture of empathy in schools by providing hands-on materials that students and teachers use throughout the school day to: understand themselves, empathize with others, solve problems, resolve conflicts collaboratively.
The Game is also used to enrich academics, helping students understand characters in literature and history, and strengthen their own story-telling and writing. Conference: Education
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