Historical Empathy: A Response to Foster and Yeager.

Blake, Christopher

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ERIC Number: EJ605743

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1998

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Historical Empathy: A Response to Foster and Yeager.

Blake, Christopher

International Journal of Social Education, v13 n1 p25-31 Spr-Sum 1998

Responds to the article "Why People in the Past Acted as They Did: An Exploratory Study in Historical Empathy" focusing on three particular issues: (1) the relationship between empathy and history; (2) the extent to which reflexivity unites with empathy; and (3) the question of how empathy operates practically in the history classroom. (CMK)

Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Educational Methods, Emotional Response, Empathy, Epistemology, Higher Education, Historical Interpretation, History, Inquiry, Self Concept

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers

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Language: English

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Note: For article referred to in annotation, see SO 532 280.