Asserts the importance of empathy as a necessary condition for health service professionals. Describes classroom techniques and assignments that teach and assess empathic-listening skills. Includes students' ratings of 14 learning activities designed to enhance listening skills and empathy. (CFR)

Examined the role of three sympathy-related responses--cognitive, affective, and motivational--in adolescents' self-reports of prosocial response to distress in friends and acquaintances. Findings suggest that, in adolescents, affective and motivational responses can be differentiated along a dimension of other- versus self-orientation and that…

Uses a case study to illustrate how counselors can use chaos and complexity theory in their work, providing an alternative view to assist counselors in conceptualizing their clients and their practice. Using chaos theory in counseling requires a reevaluation of counselors' assumptions about causation, prediction, and control. (LKS)

Discusses interpersonal sentiment and research that suggests individuals are more likely to comply with or help others whom they like than individuals whom they do not like. Reports on two studies of 237 undergraduate Japanese students. Finds that positive sentiment toward a target person increased the subject's willingness to help. (CFR)

The literature on how children begin understanding subjectivity and point of view in fictional stories is considered. Examination of the oral stories of a five-year-old child indicated the ability to depict the beliefs, intentions, feelings, and perceptions of the story characters. Implications for assessment and interventions to help children…

Popular and rejected fourth grade children viewed vignettes that depicted a provocation between two children in which the provocateur's intention was ambiguous. Information about the provocateur's affect was provided. Popular, but not rejected, children modified their interpretations of the provocateur's intent based on the affective information…

Discusses using historiography on the Reconstruction Era as a method for generating classroom lessons in both inductive reasoning and critical thinking. Urges teaching of historical process as well as content. Suggests emphasizing limitations of available historical data and perspective. Recommends presenting students with historical data allowing…

Explored the relationship between the cognitive style and the sociability of 76 5-year-old Mexican Americans in 5 public school kindergarten classrooms. Main effects were found in play behaviors, selection of play areas, perspective taking, social competence, and sociometric nominations. (Author/LB)

Describes how a high school English teacher uses the metaphor of "lenses" to help her students learn to see through the eyes of another and come to understand their experiences. Discusses how this fosters students' awareness of gender as a lens to view the world; reduces their resistance to acknowledging other viewpoints; and encourages awareness…

Discusses the controversy over whether sport teams should use Native American logos, mascots, or native symbols. Suggests that by implementing role-reversal techniques (putting the nonnative people in the same place) uncaring sports fans may recognize the disrespect involved; offers a hypothetical newspaper article that illustrates the…

The practice of responding to women's fears by "fixing" the situation denies them their feelings and eclipses their knowledge of self. Intuition is a valid way of knowing, and outdoor leaders need to honor it in themselves and others, and listen to and encourage women who voice their feelings. (TD)

The authors of a book on parenting maintain their book is about the state of being while raising children, which they feel is a spiritual experience. Allowing children their sovereignty; learning from pain and chaos; not projecting expectations onto children; and the importance of paying attention to the present moment, a concept borrowed from…

Addresses teaching about the Vietnam War. Focuses on selecting literature and how to implement the "mines and booby traps simulation," which demonstrates the experience of an infantry soldier. Describes follow-up activities to the simulation, the connections students made between the simulation and literature, and the importance of simulation…

Presents six different investigations of character enhancement that attempts to answer three questions: (1) who are you; (2) what is your destination; and (3) who is your captain? Intends to build relationships among ideas such as perspective taking, seeing and making connections with the other, and understanding more about ethical development.…

Examines preservice teachers' developing conceptions of reader response theory, specifically focusing on the importance of aesthetic response to students' engagement with and motivation for reading. Finds that the aesthetic reader stance predominated in students' written responses and discussions; and that written response did not influence the…