The Great Connections Seminar

The Great Connections Seminar
Discussing ethics

Monday, February 21, 2011

Empathy in the Classroom

Lila Jokanovic shared this documentary with me, "Children Full of Life" about a Japanese classroom with a teacher who nurtures the empathy between his students. It's fascinating how much more developed children can be in such an environment.

1 comment:

Edwin Rutsch said...

May I suggest a further resources to learn more about empathy and compassion.
The Center for Building a Culture of Empathy
The Culture of Empathy website is the largest internet portal for resources and information about the values of empathy and compassion. It contains articles, conferences, definitions, experts, history, interviews,  videos, science and much more about empathy and compassion.
http://CultureOfEmpathy.com

We posted a link to your article about empathy to our Empathy Center Facebook page.
http://Facebook.com/EmpathyCenterre