Fostering Empathy in Global Citizenship Education
Necessary, Desirable, or Simply Misguided
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21314337 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Eirik Julius Risberg (0000-0003-1694-3612, Faculty of Education and Arts Nord University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 72 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 553-573 |
| Publication date | 2022-10-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Educational Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-2004 • E-ISSN: 1741-5446 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/edth.12546 |
| OpenAlex | W4320733545 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
In an increasingly globalized world, empathy has been identified as a core competency of future global citizens and thus as an important skill to be fostered in global citizenship education (GCE). Despite this, however, what empathy is , and how it can play the pivotal role often claimed for it in the literature, have not been adequately explored. Here, Eirik Risberg argues that, pace the common conception of empathy, empathy should not be construed narrowly, as an affective concept, but broadly, as a cognitive and epistemic concept. Drawing on recent work in philosophy and psychology, Risberg explores a suggestion that construes empathy as a complex self‐directed perspective‐taking of the situation of another. While this may constitute a conception of empathy that is more modest than the most ardent proponents of empathy would like, it has the benefit of avoiding the objections that have been leveled against empathy as a moral concept and thus allows us to maintain that empathy is a valuable skill to be cultivated in educating global citizens for the twenty‐first century
Citizenship · Citizenship education · Empathy · Epistemology · Global citizenship · Global Citizenship Education · Pace · Perspective (graphical) · Perspective-taking · Political science · Simulation theory of empathy · Sociology · Education and Critical Thinking Development · Global Education and Multiculturalism · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Religious Education and Schools · Social Psychology
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |