Thursday, January 4, 2018

Empathy is academic


How do you get middle-schoolers to move beyond cultural and historical stereotypes? Present them with a paradox that draws out and directly addresses biases before students form arguments that affirm the supremacy of their cultural lens. The China Educator's Toolkit engages students with the three lenses of empathy (historical, cultural and social) through an investigation of the cultural practice of foot-binding.  

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