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ERIC Number: EJ395879
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1989
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Empathy: Concept, Confusion and Consequences in a National Curriculum.
Knight, Peter
Oxford Review of Education, v15 n1 p41-53 Mar 1989
Discusses how empathy is promoted in the United Kingdom's National Curriculum. Notes that the concept is ambiguous, especially as it is used in the subject of history. Describes how this concept impedes planning, teaching, and assessment. Suggests that understanding how children reason is more productive that making assumptions about how they should be reasoning. (KO)
Descriptors: British National Curriculum, Cognitive Processes, Curriculum Development, Educational Practices, Elementary Secondary Education, Empathy, Foreign Countries, History Instruction, Identification, Learning Strategies, Perspective Taking, Social Studies
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers
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Language: English
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Identifiers: United Kingdom