5 Tips for Cultivating Empathy
Empathy is at the heart of what it means to be human. It’s a foundation for acting ethically, for good relationships of many kinds, for loving well, and for professional… Read More
seriesOttiya Empathy Issue
In the Ottiya Empathy Issue, we explore the intersections of empathy and learning. We uncover how education innovators all over the world understand and conceptualize empathy in different ways. Together with our contributors, we explore questions such as: what does empathy mean to you? Why should we teach children about empathy? What are the challenges of incorporating empathy into existing curricula?
Developing Empathy Through Writing
Writing, like any other art form, involves a certain degree of empathy; empathy for a created world and the characters living in that world. My role as an educator is… Read More
Building Empathy in Local Green Spaces
From September to June in the school year of 2017-2018, our students had been feeling unsettled and unaware about local green spaces because there is a culture shift of playtime… Read More
Empathy – Our Tool to Make Technology humane
In 2014, programming had just become part of the national curriculum of elementary schools in Finland. There was a big discussion about the aims and implications of programming education: is… Read More
Empathy is Understanding and Imagining Someone Else’s Story
David is the Founder and Director of the Teaching Empathy Institute, which provides a holistic approach to quality education that takes into account the social, emotional, and leadership skills for… Read More
Me + You = Us
Having been brought up to quickly navigate through different languages and cultures in Asia, North America, and Europe, I found Finland quite the challenging place. Not only is the language… Read More
Ecopsychological Revitalization: Can Nature Make Us More Caring?
What do you do when you come across a flower when you walk down a street or path? Do you stop or do you walk by in haste focusing on… Read More
Robotics for Empathy: Interview with Nao Kondo
Nao Kondo made the Forbes 30 under 30 Asia 2016 list when she was 20 years old. In high school, she founded a group with five teenage designers to develop… Read More
Cultivating Empathy in and beyond the Classroom
We continuously learn from every single thing that is going on around us. While walking on the street, we learn from the different ways strangers walk. We learn from the… Read More
Reflections for Serendipitous Discovery in Analog and Digital Libraries
In an ad-hoc library at a refugee camp recently, I counted 36 copies of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory in the English-language adult psychology section. There was a psych class… Read More