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OCLC number
1006990225
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Author
Singhal, Rebecca,1972-
Title
The effectiveness of empathy training on increasing teacher multicultural competencies and decreasing prejudice.
Degree
M. Sc. -- University of Calgary, 2000
Publisher
Ottawa : National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, [2001]
Description
2 microfiches
Notes
Includes bibliographical references.
Abstract
The present study investigated the effectiveness of empathy training as a strategy for increasing teacher multicultural competencies and decreasing prejudice. All participants were required to complete the Interpersonal Reactivity Index (Davis, 1980). The participants were then asked to read the cultural vignette, "Final Draft: In Memory of Myself", which describes the difficult, immigrant experiences of a Chinese American child caught between his Chinese heritage and the dominant American culture. The participants in the control group were simply required to read the vignette. Participants in the cultural awareness and knowledge group were asked to read the vignette and record as many facts from the vignette that they could recollect on a sheet provided. This served as the current and traditional approach to increasing cultural sensitivity, which emphasizes the learning of facts and knowledge about another culture. The participants in the empathy training were exposed to 30 minutes of training implementing the necessary conditions for successful empathy training: didactic instruction, modeling, role-play, and feedback. After taking part in the training, the participants in the empathy training group were directed to read the cultural vignette, take the role of the individual, and to put themselves in that person's shoes and try to imagine what the person was cognitively and emotionally experiencing. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
ISBN
0612552438
9780612552432