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Annotated Bibliography: Altruism, Empathy, And Prosocial Behavior (1998-2013), Erich Yahner
Annotated Bibliography: Altruism, Empathy, And Prosocial Behavior (1998-2013), Erich Yahner
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Increasing Student Engagement Through Animal Welfare Education And Service, Stephanie Itle-Clark
Increasing Student Engagement Through Animal Welfare Education And Service, Stephanie Itle-Clark
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Student engagement is for the most part driven by three factors, “underlying need for competence, the extent to which students experience membership in the school, and the authenticity” of the task they are given. Animal welfare education and correlated service‐learning can address all three of these factors. In addition, for the many students who have traditionally written‐off school and school sponsored functions, personal and authentic learning can assist in rebuilding trust in the educational system. Authentic learning built around animal welfare education and animal welfare topics that impact the real world or personal neighborhoods of students encourages brain growth and …
Teaching Children To Be Kind In An Unkind World, Catherine Ann Fabio
Teaching Children To Be Kind In An Unkind World, Catherine Ann Fabio
State of the Animals 2007
Caring attitudes and behaviors are rooted in a person’s capacity for empathy. Research (Kestenbaum, Farber, and Sroufe 1989; Brazelton and Greenspan 2000; Hoffman 2000) shows that quality of care and security of attachment affect children's later capacity for cognitive development, emotional regulation, and behavioral control. Nurturing caregiving in a safe environment allows for continued development of neural pathways, which in turn, allows for mastery of increasingly sophisticated cognitive skills necessary for emotion regulation, and social perspective taking (Selman 1980), prerequisites to empathic behavior (Bryant 1985). True empathy requires that an individual possess the capacity to discriminate another person’s affect, see …