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Empathy and home economics education : transformation and emancipation Melnyk, Brianne

Abstract

While research shows that empathy can be taught and has the potential to transform the lives of our students, empathy is not explicitly included in current research in the field of home economics. However, the new BC curriculum includes empathy across the curriculum, including explicitly in curriculum competencies in home economics. From the new curriculum and a complex world comes the question of what is empathy, why should we teach it, and what are the best practices for including it in our home economics classrooms?

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Empathy and home economics education : transformation and emancipation
Creator
Melnyk, Brianne
Date Issued
2020-04
Description
While research shows that empathy can be taught and has the potential to transform the lives of our students, empathy is not explicitly included in current research in the field of home economics. However, the new BC curriculum includes empathy across the curriculum, including explicitly in curriculum competencies in home economics. From the new curriculum and a complex world comes the question of what is empathy, why should we teach it, and what are the best practices for including it in our home economics classrooms?
Subject
empathy; human ecology; home economics; student thinking; curriculum; education; student-centered learning; transformation; educational research; emancipative action
Genre
Graduating Project
Type
Text
Language
eng
Series
University of British Columbia. EDCP 590
Date Available
2023-11-16
Provider
Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
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Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
DOI
10.14288/1.0437748
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/2429/86592
Affiliation
Education, Faculty of; Curriculum and Pedagogy (EDCP), Department of
Peer Review Status
Unreviewed
Scholarly Level
Graduate
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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