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ERIC Number: EJ1092115
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2012
Pages: 10
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ISSN: ISSN-1935-7869
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Research-Based Personas: Teaching Empathy in Professional Education
van Rooij, Shahron Williams
Journal of Effective Teaching, v12 n3 p77-86 2012
Graduate students enrolled in professional education degree programs are increasingly challenged by the need to acquire the complex skills/competencies of their respective professions on the one hand, while retaining empathy for the individuals they will be serving on the other hand. This paper suggests a technique which uses the Persona, a narrative representation of a desired client's or user's behavior patterns that is grounded in the philosophy of User-centered Design (UCD), to integrate empathy into professional education, and includes an example from a graduate-level program in instructional design. Opportunities for adopting this technique in various disciplines at the undergraduate level are also identified.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Virginia
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