Artifacts of Empathy: Cultivating, Identifying, and Assessing Students’ Development and Written Articulations of Empathy in a Community Engagement Course
Stephanie May De Montigny
Abstract:This research recounts a scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) project aimed at facilitating students’ empathic development while also offering ways to identify and assess students’ written expressions of empathy. I ground this work in an exploration of the many processes labelled as empathy and the reasons for including empathy as a course learning outcome. While participating in the Lighted School House program, I explored using progressive, or stacked, writing reflections to help students build, recog… Show more
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