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Creating Empathy Through Service Learning: A Pedagogy for a Changing World

Service learning is the catalyst for people to enter an oppressed or disenfranchised community, create bonds of understanding through dialogue, and learn to genuinely understand the behaviors and actions of that community. This paper explores the links among empathy creation, oppression, and different forms of consciousness that service learning is responsible for creating. The theories of Paulo Freire's engaged pedagogy, bell hooks critical consciousness, Novella Keith's theory of reciprocity, and Walter Fluker's theory of ethical leadership provide the context for my exploration. These authors demonstrate the importance of creating genuine empathetic bonds through action, practice, and reflection. / Urban Education

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:TEMPLE/oai:scholarshare.temple.edu:20.500.12613/4138
Date January 2012
CreatorsTorsney, Benjamin
ContributorsKeith, Novella Zett, Hartman, Eric, 1976-
PublisherTemple University. Libraries
Source SetsTemple University
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis/Dissertation, Text
Format72 pages
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Relationhttp://dx.doi.org/10.34944/dspace/4120, Theses and Dissertations

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