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Evaluating The Effectiveness Of Empathy-Based Education In The Modern Zoo, Annika Brinkley
Evaluating The Effectiveness Of Empathy-Based Education In The Modern Zoo, Annika Brinkley
WWU Honors College Senior Projects
Approximately 10,000 zoos exist in the world, attracting an estimated 600 million visitors annually. At the most basic level, these zoos are tourist destinations dedicated to assembling animals in confinement from around the world. The arguably most modern and conservation-minded zoos today form the Association of Zoos and Aquariums. In January of 2019, twenty AZA-accredited zoos and aquariums created the Advancing Conservation through Empathy Network (ACE). AZA facilities that are part of the ACE Network engage visitors through a process known as Empathy-Based Education (EBE). EBE encourages compassion and emotional connection to animals by having the visitor take the place …
Social Perspective Taking: Advancing Empathy And Advocating Justice, Francisco Rios, Allen Trent, Lillian Vega Castañeda
Social Perspective Taking: Advancing Empathy And Advocating Justice, Francisco Rios, Allen Trent, Lillian Vega Castañeda
Woodring Scholarship on Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion
In this article, the authors attempt to employ a pedagogical tool, social perspective-taking, as a way to engage their students in the act of critical self-reflection, from a personal and professional point of view. The use of perspective taking devices, especially around issues of diversity (e.g., race, class, gender, ethnicity, and language) is useful in their work as teacher educators who care about social justice. It allows them to engage their students in activity that draws upon their insider knowledge (e.g., what it is to be a member of a given group, whether it is privileged or disadvantaged) and lived …