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- Title
TEACHING ABOUT ETHNIC MINORITY FAMILIES USING A PEDAGOGY OF CARE.
- Authors
Thompson, Linda
- Abstract
The article focuses on how to teach students to care about minorities. Of the three activities of care, empathy is the most important and challenging. Care has three essential activities attentiveness, empathy, and responsiveness. These activities encourage students to focus their attention on ethnic minority families, apprehend their life conditions and reality, and actively respond to promote and protect their welfare. Paying attention to ethnic minority families means recognizing prejudice, discrimination, and racism. An understanding of racism helps guard against the false notions about ethnic minority families, but it is empathy that provides students with a personal tolerance for and understanding of difference. It is opined that to have empathy for diverse others, students must understand their own standpoint and perspective, understand the life conditions of diverse others, and take the perspective of people who live in these conditions. Empathy for diverse others can be accompanied by a range of emotional responses.
- Subjects
STUDENT attitudes; MINORITIES; ETHNIC groups; RACISM; EMPATHY; CARING
- Publication
Family Relations, 1995, Vol 44, Issue 2, p129
- ISSN
0197-6664
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/584798