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The Emotional Complexities of “Our” and “Their” Loss: The Vicissitudes of Teaching about/for Empathy in a Conflicting Society
Author(s) -
Zembylas Michalinos
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
anthropology and education quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.531
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1548-1492
pISSN - 0161-7761
DOI - 10.1111/j.1548-1492.2012.01175.x
Subject(s) - empathy , ethnic group , context (archaeology) , politics , transcendence (philosophy) , class (philosophy) , sociology , psychology , social psychology , epistemology , anthropology , political science , history , philosophy , archaeology , law
This article explores the ways in which a fifth‐grade class of G reek C ypriot students and their teacher perceived and negotiated the meanings of empathy for the “other” in the context of ethnic conflict in C yprus. The findings suggest that the process of engaging with empathy is full of fractures and failures, possibilities and impossibilities. Children's emotional ambivalences to empathize with the “other” are embedded in the politics of conflict, yet there are also moments of transcendence. [children, empathy, teaching, ethnic conflict, C yprus]