Reacting to the Past (RTTP) courses are role–immersion games that challenge students to engage in critical debate over contentious moments in history. RTTP courses have been applied to a wide variety of curricular areas and multiple disciplines, including First Year Seminars and Honors courses. Reacting has also been used in multiple disciplinary contexts including English, Global Studies, political science, and the natural sciences. This panel will discuss the faculty and student perspectives on the application of RTTP in two CLAS courses.
Reacting to the Past (RTTP) courses are role–immersion games that challenge students to engage in critical debate over contentious moments in history. RTTP courses have been applied to a wide variety of curricular areas and multiple disciplines, including First Year Seminars and Honors courses. Reacting has also been used in multiple disciplinary contexts including English, Global Studies, political science, and the natural sciences. This panel will discuss the faculty and student perspectives on the application of RTTP in two CLAS courses.
Abstrak: Penelitian ini bertujuan menginvestigasi dampak penggunaan model pembelajaran citizen journalism kepada mahasiswa untuk mengembangkan civic skills dan civic empathy sebagai upaya penguatan pendidikan karakter bagi para mahasiswa. Penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan kualitatif dengan jenis penelitian tindakan kelas menggunakan model dari Bachman. Informan dalam penelitian ini yaitu mahasiswa di Departemen Pendidikan Kewarganegaraan, Universitas Muhammadiyah Surakarta. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa para mahasiswa telah memiliki perangkat keterampilan dan empati sebagai bagian dari civic competencies yang membentuk karakter dan moralitas publik mereka. Melalui model pembelajaran citizen journalism, kedua kompetensi tersebut diperkuat dan tampak lebih jelas dengan pola pembelajaran berbuat dan penyelesaian masalah melalui penyelesaian proyek. Selain itu, hasil analisis menunjukkan bahwa model citizen journalism mampu mengembangkan sikap-sikap demokratis mahasiswa seperti keterbukaan, berpikir kritis, toleran, dan bertanggung jawab.Kata kunci: keterampilan kewarganegaraan, empati, jurnalisme warga negara. IMPROVING CIVIC SKILLS AND CIVIC EMPATHY OF STUDENTS THROUGH CITIZEN JOURNALISM PROJECTAbstract: This research aims to investigate the impact of citizen journalism as learning model for students to develop their civic skills and civic empathy as an effort to strengthen character education for students. This study used a qualitative approach with classroom action research model by Bachman. The informants of this research are students in Civic Education Department, Universitas Muhammadiyah Surakarta. The results shows that the students had had skills and empathy as part of civic competencies for shaping their character and public morality. Through the citizen journalism learning model, both of these competencies are strengthened and appear more clearly with the learning patterns of doing and solving the problems through project completion. In addition, the results of the analysis show that the citizen journalism model is able to develop democratic attitudes of students such as open-minded, critical thinking, tolerance, and responsibility. Keywords: civic skills, empathy, citizen journalism.
In my dissertation, "Refamiliarizing Empathy through the Aesthetics of James Joyce and Agustín Yáñez," I perform a comparative study of aesthetic portrayals of empathy primarily through two representative novels of Latin-American and European modernism: Yáñez's Al filo del agua (The Edge of the Storm) and a work that greatly inspired it, Joyce's Ulysses. In doing so, I advance a new interdisciplinary approach that incorporates aesthetics, Lacanian psychoanalysis, narratology, ethics, and the haptic in order to show how these two narratives, despite generally being more associated with modernist themes such as alienation, not only contain but construct empathy as well. In Al filo del agua I focus primarily on the character Father Reyes as a figure of empathy, while in Ulysses I namely analyze Bloom, particularly within the blind stripling scene. I also include an examination of the striking woodblock prints that accompany the original edition of Al filo del agua in order to demonstrate how this text features empathy not only textually, but also visually. I ultimately argue that empathy primarily makes an appearance in Al filo del agua through its more political form, prosocial action, while in Ulysses empathy occurs principally in the form of perspective taking via the perspicacious musings of Bloom.
Not everyone votes. Using data from the 2015 Finnish National Election Study, Kimmo Grönlund and Hanna Wass look at what factors make a person less likely to go to the polls or get involved in politics. They warn against assuming non-voting is a matter of personal choice and suggest ways to overcome the 'solidarity deficit' that emerges when some sections of society have no say in politics.
In the 2000s, European societies have transformed quickly due to the networked global economy, deepening a European integration process, forced and voluntary movement of people to and within Europe, and influence of social media on culture, communication, and society. Europe has become an increasingly diverse and pluricultural continent where many people simultaneously identify with multiple different cultural and social groups. In such "super-diversified" (Vertovec in New complexities of cohesion in Britain: Super-diversity, transnationalism and civil-integration, Communities and Local Government Publications, Wetherby, 2007) European societies diversity itself is broad, multidimensional, and fluid (Vertovec in New complexities of cohesion in Britain: Super-diversity, transnationalism and civil-integration, Communities and Local Government Publications, Wetherby, 2007; Blommaert and Rampton in Language and Superdiversity. Diversities 13(2):1–21, 2011). Different social locations and identities intersect within them-whether cultural, ethnic, national, social, religious, or linguistic. At the same time, however, European societies have faced the rise of diverse populist and radical right-wing movements promoting profoundly monoculturalist views and cultural purism. What are the means to confront this polarization of views and attitudes in Europe? ; peerReviewed
The Korean government is activating an integrated nurse care service, in which all inpatient care services are provided by a proper nursing team without a caregiver or a guardian staying at the hospital. This study was to examine the influence of empathy and self-efficacy on the elderly nursing practice of nurses at integrated nurse care service wards in South Korea. A cross-sectional descriptive design was employed. Participants included 238 nurses who were working at integrated nurse care service wards in hospitals in Seoul, South Korea. Measures were a general characteristics form, the Empathy Construct Rating Scale, the Korean Self-Efficacy Scale, and the Korean Elderly Nursing Practice Scale. Data were collected from February to May 2017. The findings show a slightly higher level of empathy; an almost intermediate level of self-efficacy; and a high level of elderly nursing practice in Korean nurses at integrated nurse care service wards. The only factor found to impact significantly on elderly nursing practice was empathy. The findings suggest that nurses need to enhance empathy toward the elderly to improve elderly nursing practice. It is necessary to provide strategies or interventions in the nursing management for improvement of the empathy of nurses at integrated nurse care service wards in South Korea.
The Brexit referendum produced a tumultuous reminder of the emotional-affective dimensions of political life in the UK. This article attends to affective dimensions in political experience, the fantasies and identifications that shape engagement within the shifting landscapes of politics and the structures of feeling that underpin them. The article reflects on a project undertaken between 2016–2019 in which we convened eight groups of 'Leavers' and 'Remainers' with an explicit questioning of the place and possibility of 'empathy' in the small spaces of a widening political fray. Through detailed thematic analysis of the group experiences and discourses, including personal-reflective accounts from the group conductor, we discuss 'clusters of preoccupation' characteristic of these groups and the challenges of researching empathy within the turbulent psycho-political mood of a Brexit landscape.
Reflecting on the troubled relationship between anthropology and the military, we do so by discussing the underlying epistemological, methodological, and moral claims of the distinction between an anthropology of and an anthropology for the military. Through the term ethnography of things military, we propose to reposition military anthropology as intense engagements with militarisation through empathic immersion in things military. We develop this term through feminist critiques of militarisation and compassion, through discussions of critique and empathy as part of (critical) ethnographic scholarship, and through anthropological debates about the relationality of fieldwork and ethnographer-interlocutor relations. Suggesting that an ethnography of things military relies on empathic engagements with military lifeworlds, we argue that the relationship between empathy and critique in military anthropology should be understood as a continuous collaborative (and not always predictable) process of interrogating military lifeworlds' frames of reference without necessarily sharing compassion or sympathy for them. ; Aarhus Universitets Forskningsfond AUFF-E-2015-FLS-77-HD
In this article I explore a number of ideas concerning civility and its relationship to democracy and empathy inspired by events (both political and cultural) in late 2017 and 2018. These ideas are a way of reflecting on the temper of our angry times, asking questions about how we engage with each other in ways that help to promote understanding and respect and the role that culture can play in facilitating this process. I end with a contemplation of three works I saw in 2018, Robin Campillo's 2017 film 120BPM, Lluís Pasqual's theatre production In Memoriam (Teatre Lliure Barcelona) and Albert Boadella's performative Tabarnia. By exploring the ways in which they engage with cultures of (mis)representation, I offer a series of reflections on the ways in which culture can reaffirm its civic responsibility and offer modes of thinking through issues of community, civility and camaraderie in troubled times.
In From Solidarity to Schisms, Cara Cilano conceptualizes September 11 as a moment "characterized by unfathomable vulnerability and the possibility of a better future." She argues the event, while traumatic, might have served as an impetus to reconfigure American self-perceptions and thoughts about its place in the world. Instead, she contends, the United States squandered the utopian potential of this moment. Cilano remains optimistic, however, because she sees European fictional discourse on 9/11 as emblematic of a desire for a melding of divergent perspectives. Their critique aims to keep America's sense of itself unbalanced, thus providing fuel for self-reflection, analysis, and, most important, renewal. Taking the measure of current Franco-American relations, this essay tests the validity of this contention by examining works of French fiction published in the five years after the attacks. Four of these texts—Christian Garcin's La jubilation des hasards, Didier Goupil's Le jour de mon retour sur terre, Luc Lang's 11 septembre, mon amour, and Frédéric Beigbeder's Windows on the World—will be the focus of this essay. Are they being written to take advantage of the cosmopolitan potential of the moment, or grasping the opportunity to criticize a (weakened) nation, and thereby expressing uniquely French concerns? The essay contemplates the extent to which self-interest and questions of identity—personal, political, national—interfere with empathy, thus posing a considerable challenge to the utopian dream of a cosmopolitan world.
Twitter analysis through data mining, text analysis, and visualization, coupled with the application of actor-network-theory, reveals a coalition of heterogenous religious affiliations around grief and fascination. While religious violence has always existed, the prevalence of social media has led to an increase in the magnitude of discussions around the topic. This paper examines the different reactions on Twitter to violence targeting three religious communities: the 2015 Charleston Church shooting, the 2018 Pittsburgh Synagogue shooting, and the 2019 Christchurch Mosque shootings. The attacks were all perpetrated by white nationalists with firearms. By analyzing large Twitter datasets in response to the attacks, we were able to render visible associations among actors across religions communities, national identities, and political persuasions. What this project revealed is that if we apply actor-network-theory and data visualization to look at networks created by human/non-human (text, computer, phone, meme, tweet, retweet, hashtag) actors, we can see that knowledge, empathy, and fascination drive communication around mass violence against religious communities.
Twitter analysis through data mining, text analysis, and visualization, coupled with the application of actor-network-theory, reveals a coalition of heterogenous religious affiliations around grief and fascination. While religious violence has always existed, the prevalence of social media has led to an increase in the magnitude of discussions around the topic. This paper examines the different reactions on Twitter to violence targeting three religious communities: the 2015 Charleston Church shooting, the 2018 Pittsburgh Synagogue shooting, and the 2019 Christchurch Mosque shootings. The attacks were all perpetrated by white nationalists with firearms. By analyzing large Twitter datasets in response to the attacks, we were able to render visible associations among actors across religions communities, national identities, and political persuasions. What this project revealed is that if we apply actor-network-theory and data visualization to look at networks created by human/non-human (text, computer, phone, meme, tweet, retweet, hashtag) actors, we can see that knowledge, empathy, and fascination drive communication around mass violence against religious communities.
Empathy is the antithesis of selfishness and therein lies our species? only hope of survival. For too long our selfishly anthropocentric approach ? that which considers human beings as the most significant entity of the universe ? has powerfully held sway. This has seen our world disintegrate on countless levels; climatic change being the main case in point. As a species, not only have we turned anyone not in our group(s) into the other, we have even othered nature. I explore how globalised cultures and economies, because contemporary market economies profit from the control and commodification of all that lives, threaten our planet?s sustainability. My chapter argues that, thankfully, a historic wave of empathy is challenging our highly individualistic, self-obsessed cultures, in which most of us have become far too absorbed in our own lives to give much thought to anyone else. That is why we have to take difference and diversity ? the embracing of the other on every level ? as our main point of reference. We must suspend belief that political participation, moral empathy, and social cohesion can only be produced on the basis of the notion of recognition of sameness. Empathy, maintains Roman Krznaric, is an ideal that has the power both to transform our own lives and to bring about fundamental social change; it can create a radical revolution. Furthermore, within my sphere of influence as a journalism lecturer, I am agitating for the incorporation of empathy into journalism curricula so that future young African journalists (tomorrow?s information gatekeepers) will be taught ?empathy skills?; because the communications industry, especially print media, digital journalism, television, and radio, are critical in this revolution.
This proposal focuses on four parts to reflect on implementing future science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education: a research framework in boundary spanning in STEM community engagement, barriers and initiatives synthesized from the data, and pilot testing within a community engagement service learning course at Ohio State. Community engagement in this study refers to relationship between university and external educational entities to mutually improve social, civic and ethical problems around educational outcomes. In the process of community engagement, boundary spanners are essential. They are individuals who act as knowledge and power brokers to help establish reciprocal relationships between a university and community, who are fundamental for providing pathways for collaboration between the academy and society. The first part is the qualitative framework on boundary spanning. It provides guidelines for the implementation of a boundary spanner. The second part contextually aligns barriers and engagement initiatives around such an intervention. These outcomes can guide researchers strategically use the boundary spanner within case studies to minimize barriers, increase outcomes, and more clearly understand how a boundary spanner intervention can systematically impact university/community engagement. The third part shows one emergence theme from the data that empathy is utilized as an example for illustrating contextual findings within the engagement system. Empathy turns out to be a factor that provides for success within engagement activities, and as a method which provides for continual and long-term engagement participation and outcomes. Therefore, the final part is to illustrate a pilot testing specifically on a community engagement course designed by boundary spanners as an engagement activity with emphasize on professional skills including empathy to evaluate boundary spanning implementation in academic courses. This proposal aims to be presented to stakeholders during boundary spanning implication in STEM fields. The intended audience includes but is not limited to university and institutions, nonprofit organizations, government, representatives, students, educators and K-12 schools. The presenter has a research focus and expertise in boundary spanning and community engagement. He attempts to optimize community-university relations for broadening participation in the STEM fields and help guide the evolution of the methods used to develop engineers. ; AUTHOR AFFILIATION: David Delaine, Assistant Professor, Department of Engineering Education, Delaine.4@osu.edu (Corresponding Author). ; This study focuses on four areas to support mutual benefits within community-engaged science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education: a qualitative research framework in boundary spanning, barriers and initiatives synthesized from the data, important factors of effective engagement in boundary spanning, and pilot testing on specific community engagement program in an Ohio State engineering course. Community engagement in this study refers to relationship between university and external educational entities to mutually improve social, civic and ethical problems around educational outcomes. The findings provide transferable research and knowledge about boundary spanning, which involves individuals who are fundamental for providing pathways for collaboration between the academy and society, as a method of strengthening pathways for broadening participation in STEM through community engagement.
