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Barak, Julie – 2003
When teachers work to create empathy that transfers or translates the experience of the other into an experience an individual has had, they promote a kind of egotism that dismisses the other or that reduces the other to the category of the self. The key problem with empathy of this sort is that the focus is not on the other, but on the self. The…
Descriptors: Empathy, Freshman Composition, Higher Education, Literary Criticism