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Empathy and Social-Emotional Learning: Pitfalls and Touchstones for School-Based Programs
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Maxwell, Bruce; DesRoches, Sarah – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2010
This chapter identifies three common pitfalls in the use of the concept of empathy in formal social-emotional learning interventions: (1) not distinguishing between affective and cognitive empathy ("equivocation"); (2) overestimating the role of the imagination in empathizing ("Piaget's fallacy"); and (3) not accommodating the developmental and…
Descriptors: Empathy, Educational Environment, Cognitive Processes, Socialization