21st Century Learning and Teaching

By teaching students these skills in an authentic, applicable way, will they see each other differently? It’s worth finding out. With so many curricular and time restraints on teachers, how can we be expected to explicitly teach empathy in a meaningful way?

A Definition Of Empathy

Webster’s dictionary defines empathy as: the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either in the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner; also: the capacity for this.

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Researchers from the University of Otago, New Zealand, wanted to find out if engaging in normal creative acts make people feel better. An analysis of the information found a pattern of more enthusiasm and higher ‘flourishing’ following days when the undergraduates were more creative.

Study author Dr Tamlin Conner said: ‘There is growing recognition in psychology research that creativity is associated with emotional functioning.

‘However, most of this work focuses on how emotions benefit or hamper creativity, not whether creativity benefits or hampers emotional wellbeing.’

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Nach Trump und Brexit: Ist unser liberales System am Ende? Der Experte Wolfgang Schivelbusch ist überzeugt: Politik muss wieder mehr verbaler Boxring sein und nicht nur Schönsprech-Diplomatie.

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Why are some people so much better at expressing empathy than others?

Psychologists define empathy as sensitivity to the emotions, both positive and negative, of other people. You can feel empathic—or empathetic (the two words are used interchangeably)—to someone who is feeling positive feelings, such as amusement or joy, in addition to someone who is feeling sadness or anger. “Empathy is being in the heart of another person,” says Susan Kuczmarski, a cultural anthropologist and adjunct faculty member in the executive education program at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.

Researchers have determined that people react in one of two ways when faced with another person’s emotions. Sometimes people respond with “empathic concern” or caregiving. They see themselves as a source of comfort or support for the other person.

But sometimes people feel threatened by the other person’s emotions and focus instead on themselves. They might try to help, to minimize their own discomfort. Typically they distance themselves. Psychologists call this response “empathic distress.”

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Auch YouTube muss sich den Vorwurf gefallen lassen, nicht genug gegen problematische Inhalte zu tun. In einem neuen Video sprechen sich nun deutsche YouTube-Stars gegen Hass und Hetze aus.  #NichtEgal #NoHateSpeech

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Im Rahmen des Weltflüchtlingstages ist die Internetseite www.nohatespeech.lu online gegangen. Das No Hate Speech Movement wurde vom Conseil de l’Europe gestartet und hat als Ziel, vorrangig Jugendliche sowie Jugendorganisationen als Teil der Zivilgesellschaft dazu aufzufordern, sich aktiv gegen jede Form von Hate Speech einzusetzen. In Folge eines Aufrufes des Service National de la Jeunesse haben sich 25 Organisationen, darunter BEE SECURE, um die Kampagne in Luxemburg aufzubauen.

Jugendorganisationen, Gruppen von Jugendlichen, sowie Schulklassen können ihr eigenes Projekt zur Kampagne beitragen, indem sie ihre Vorschläge über das vorhandene Formular auf der Webseite einreichen.

Mehr Informationen als auch andere Möglichkeiten, die Kampagne zu unterstützen, lassen sich auf www.nohatespeech.lu finden.

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Like other aspects of modern life, education can make the head hurt. So many outcomes, so much important work to do, so many solutions and strategies, so many variations on teaching, so many different kinds of students with so many different needs, so many unknowns in preparing for 21st Century life and the endless list of jobs that haven’t been invented.

What if we discovered one unifying factor that brought all of this confusion under one roof and gave us a coherent sense of how to stimulate the intellect, teach children to engage in collaborative problem solving and creative challenge, and foster social-emotional balance and stability—one factor that, if we got right, would change the equation for learning in the same way that confirming the existence of a fundamental particle informs a grand theory of the universe?

That factor exists: It’s called empathy.

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Are you pulled in a million directions? Because we’re all unique, it’s important to define what balance means to you and how you plan to achieve it.

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Wikipedia explains service learning as: "An educational approach that combines learning objectives with community service in order to provide a pragmatic, progressive learning experience while meeting societal needs."

That second definition is easier to comprehend, but it still feels more complicated than it needs to be. How about this: In service learning, students learn educational standards through tackling real-life problems in their community.

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Harvard theorist Howard Gardner describes emotional intelligence as “the level of your ability to understand other people, what motivates them and how to work cooperatively with them.”  Emotional intelligence can be broken down into five major components.  When we look at each in turn it becomes easy to understand why EQ plays such a key role success.

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At its core, teaching is about reaching humans.

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