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Culture of Empathy Builder:  Jeffrey Liew

Pending - in development

 Jeffrey Liew and Edwin Rutsch: Dialogs on How to Build a Culture of Empathy

 

 Jeffrey Liew is an associate professor at Texas A&M University in the Department of Educational Psychology with joint appointments in the Learning Sciences and School Psychology programs. Liew's research includes social, emotional, and personality development, with a focus on the roles of emotion and self-regulation in individuals academic, psychosocial, and health-related outcomes. Bridging basic and applied science, Liew's research has addressed issues such as school readiness, achievement gaps, mental health disparities, and childhood obesity.

 

 
 

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 Vishal Arghode
Bugrahan Yalvac
Jeffrey Liew

 

Paper

 

Teacher Empathy and Science Education: A Collective Case Study
Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education, 2013, 9(2), 89-99
Vishal Arghode, Bugrahan Yalvac, and Jeffrey Liew
 

"To initiate dialogue on empathy in science classroom, its role in science teaching, and to encourage science teacher education researchers and faculty to consider the role of empathy in science teaching, we conducted an instrumental collective case study with five science education graduate students at a Research-I university in the US. Data were collected through face-to-face semi-structured interviews. Within-case and across-case analyses were performed to interpret the data from the individual interviews and compare them with one and another. Our findings collectively speak to our participants’ perspectives of empathy in science teaching. Finally, we discuss implications for teacher education and professional development and the need for learning sciences and science education research to systematically examine teacher empathy and student learning.

 

State of the literature

  • Limited research exists on teacher empathy in science education.

  • Science education tends to focus on content learning without utilizing students’ emotions to optimize learning.

  • The socio-emotional climate of science classrooms is an emerging area of research.

Contribution of this paper to the literature

  • Explored the prospective science teacher educators’ perspectives of empathy in science teaching.

  • Proposed a new agenda of research for science education.

  • Brought attention to the role of empathy in science classrooms to promote student-centered instruction."

 

 

Jeffrey Liew, Nancy Eisenberg, Tracy L Spinrad, Natalie D Eggum, R G Haugen, Anne Kupfer, Mark Reiser, Cynthia L Smith,Katherine Lemery-Chalfant, Melinda E Baham (2011)  Physiological regulation and fearfulness as predictors of youngchildren’s empathy-related reactions   Social Development 20: 1. 111-134 February  

Jeffrey Liew, Nancy Eisenberg, Sandra H Losoya, Richard A Fabes, Ivonna K Guthrie, Bridget C Murphy (2003)  Children'sphysiological indices of empathy and their socioemotional adjustment: Does caregivers' expressivity matter?   Journal of Family Psychology 17: 4. 584-597 December  

Nancy Eisenberg, Jeffrey Liew (2009) The Child: An Encyclopedic Companion Empathy 316-318 Chicago: University of Chicago Press
 


Here are some questions we can explore during the interview.
 

(   )  How can we build a culture of empathy?
i.e. raise the level of empathy in society?


 

Value?
What's your most important personal value?

How did you develop it?

Do you have a story of when you learned an insight into it?


Defining empathy

(   ) What is your metaphor of what empathy is like? Explain?
(   ) What is a physical metaphor. (make a body movement)

(   ) What does that feel like in your body?
 

 

(   ) What is your metaphor of what the opposite of empathy is like? Explain?

(   ) What does that feel like in your body?
 

 

(   ) What would a culture of empathy look like?

(   ) What's the metaphor for  a culture of empathy?


 

Empathy Story

(   ) "When did you first discover the power of empathy?"

(   ) Create a dialog between the two.


 

(   )  How can we build a culture of empathy?

 

 

(   ) What are the obstacles to deepening empathy?



(   ) How to overcome the obstacle?


(   )  Are there questions that you would like me to ask you