Historical Empathy and Perspective Taking in the Social Studies

by Davis, O. L., Jr.; Yeager, Elizabeth Anne; Foster, Stuart J.; Ashby, Rosalyn; Davis, O L., Jr.; Doppen, Frans; Field, Sherry L.; Lee, Peter; Levstik, Linda S.; Riley, Karen L.; VanSledright, Bruce A.

• ISBN13: 9780847698127
• ISBN10: 0847698122
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-06-06
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

Contributors to this volume offer insights from the discipline of history about the nature of empathy and the necessity of examining perspectives on the past. On the basis of recent classroom research, they suggest tested guides to more robust teaching. The contributors insist that with experienced history and social studies teachers, students can learn many historical details and, with the use of empathy, develop deepened and textured interpretations of the history that they study.

Table of Contents

In Pursuit of Historical Empathy	1	(12)
O. L. Davis Jr.
The Role of Empathy in the Development of Historical Understanding	13	(8)
Elizabeth Anne Yeager
Stuart J. Foster
Empathy, Perspective Taking, and Rational Understanding	21	(30)
Peter Lee
Rosalyn Ashby
From Empathic Regard to Self-Understanding: Im/Positionality, Empathy, and Historical Contextualization	51	(18)
Bruce A. VanSledright
Crossing the Empty Spaces: Perspective Taking in New Zealand Adolescents' Understanding of National History	69	(28)
Linda S. Levstik
Teaching and Learning Multiple Perspectives on the Use of the Atomic Bomb: Historical Empathy in the Secondary Classroom	97	(18)
Elizabeth Anne Yeager
Frans H. Doppen
Perspectives and Elementary Social Studies: Practice and Promise	115	(24)
Sherry L. Field
The Holocaust and Historical Empathy: The Politics of Understanding	139	(28)
Karen L. Riley
Historical Empathy in Theory and Practice: Some Final Thoughts	167	(16)
Stuart J. Foster
Index	183	(8)
About the Contributors	191