Empathic Communities: Educating for Justice - Softcover

Selles, Johanna M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1608998614 ISBN 13: 9781608998616

Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2011

Synopsis

Empathy is generally considered a useful skill for professional students in the helping professions, such as medicine, nursing, teaching, and clergy. This book examines the pedagogical and curricular implications of educating for empathy. Empathy is described as consisting of both cognitive and affective elements. Students may demonstrate empathic abilities on a continuum from an empathic deficit to empathic overload. Mentoring, reflection, journaling, and an understanding of spiritual formation can be helpful to professional students in learning how to engage empathy. For both the professional and the client, empathy can enhance the encounter and the professional relationship. Building on the inherent potential for relationality, professionals engaging empathy bring respectful humility into their encounters that can facilitate intercultural understanding in a diversifying and complex world.

About this title

About the Author

Johanna Selles is Associate Professor of Christian Education/Faith Formation at Emmanuel College of Victoria University in the University of Toronto. She is the author of Methodists and Women's Education in Ontario, 1836-1925 and The World Student Christian Federation (1895-1925).

Edition details

• Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1608998614
• ISBN 13: 9781608998616
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 190