Empathy Education

References
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Success in the Conceptual Age

To flourish in this age, we'll need to supplement our welldeveloped high tech abilities with aptitudes that are "high concept" and "high touch." High concept involves the ability to create artistic and emotional beauty, to detect patterns and opportunities, to craft a satisfying narrative, and to come up with inventions the world didn't know it was missing. High touch involves the capacity to empathize, to understand the subtleties of human interaction, to find joy in one's self and to elicit it in others.

These great videos from http://www.thersa.org/

RSA Animate- The Empathic Civilization RSA Shorts- The Power of Empathy

Education for the Conceptual Age

Daniel H. Pink

Promoting empathy as and educational goal for the modern world.

Revenge of the Right Brain

Empathy in the Classroom

Educators inherently know that empathy is important to the operation of their classrooms and the success of their students. Educators must meet the needs of each of their students, no matter their background. At the core of this educational mission is the teacher's ability to empathize with these students, moving beyond the teacher's perspective to those of the children he or she encounters. Beyond this there is also the argument that empathy itself should be a goal of education; students should leave the classroom or school environment equipped with skills to build meaningful relationships with their peers.

Homo Empathicus: The next stage of human development.

With forager/hunter societies, communication only extended to the local tribe and shouting distance. So empathy only extended to blood ties. When we went to the great hydraulicagricultural civilizations script allowed us to extend the central nervous system and to annihilate more time and space and bring more people together and the differentiation of skills and the increasing selfhood not only led to theological consciousness but empathy now extended to a new fiction. And that is, instead of just associating with one's blood ties we detribalised and began associations based on religious ties. So a new fiction Jews start to see all other Jews as extended family and empathize with Jews. The industrial revolution and we extend markets now to larger areas and create a fiction called 'The Nation State'. And all of a sudden, the Brits start to see others in Britain as extended family the Germans start to see Germans as extended family, the Americans as Americans. There was no such thing as 'Germany'. There was no such thing as 'France'. These are fictions. But they allow us to extend our families so that we can have loyalties and identities based on the new complex energy communication revolutions we have that annihilate time and space. But if we have gone from empathy in blood ties to empathy in religious associational ties to empathy based on national identification is it really a big stretch to imagine the new technologies allowing us to connect our empathy to the human race at large in a single biosphere? - Jeremy Rifkin The Empathic Civilization

-Empathyed.org
Empathy in the Classroom