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The discussion highlights empathy’s non-consensual gaze and how classroom use may produce asymmetry and gendered, racial, or cultural bias. 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The term has its roots in aesthetic appreciation of artistic endeavour, although it has evolved into an appreciation of matters from another’s perspective. As such, it is a powerful tool for anti-bullying and anti-oppression pedagogical discourses. As “empathy” involves a potentially non-consensual gaze on another individual, the term continues to be contested not only from its possible and potentially asymmetrical applications in teaching to a potential for gendered, racial, or cultural bias in what groups or people are seen to be empathic or worthy of empathy.  \nKeywords: Empathy; keyword; education  \nDr. Jordan Palmer is currently a Master ’s of Education (M.Ed.) student at Brock University. Holding a Ph.D. in Law from the University of Ottawa, he is a practising lawyer in Ontario, specializing in civil litigation. His research interests include human rights, diversity, antioppression, and equity in education and law.  \n[Email:](Email: JP16KJ@Brocku.ca)[ ](Email: JP16KJ@Brocku.ca)[JP16KJ@Brocku.ca](Email: JP16KJ@Brocku.ca)  \nA toddler, Aylan Kurdi, lies face down on the wet sand, unmoving, watched by a powerless man in uniform. In early September 2015, the boy’s small dead body became a ghastly evocation of a much larger human tragedy. Kurdi was just one among thousands of Syrian refugees who died attempting to escape civil war, but images of his small body vomited up on a beach provoked a global outpouring of empathy. As the image occurred in the midst of the Canadian federal election campaign, Justin Trudeau turned the outpouring of public feeling into a campaign promise. If elected, Trudeau promised to expedite the process of bringing 25,000 Syrian refugees into the country by the end of the year. Trudeau won, though it took a little longer than anticipated to fulfill this campaign promise. Although clearly a signal demonstration of how individual feeling can be turned to political action, it doesn’t on its own provide a reproducible model for encouraging a kinder, more humane world. Can teaching empathy promote, as Hannah Arendt (1990) suggests, a “general human solidarization . . . the capacity to lose oneself in the sufferings of others?”(p. 81) . The answers lie partly in the evolution of the term.  \n“Empathy” has a comparatively recent etymology, with two direct antecedents. In its original German, it was first conceived as a physical characteristic of the nervous system: its 1895 translation of Einfühlung meaning “a physical property of the nervous system . . . believed to be correlated with feeling”(Oxford English Dictionary [OED], 2011) . A second antecedent (first translated into English in 1903), the German empathie, was similarly individual: “the power of projecting one’s personality into or mentally identifying oneself with an object of contemplation, and so fully understanding or appreciating it”(OED) . The relevant point here is the distinction between something internal (experienced by an individual) and something external (enabling action ideally to alleviate suffering) . The presence of empathy, however, does not necessarily presuppose tolerance. Julius Streicher, for example, authored three children’s books (thus assuming an artistic disposition and an empathetic temperament), that were anti-Semitic. A leading Nazi, he was ultimately executed for his crimes against humanity (Jacobs, 2012) . On the redemptive side, however, Marilyn Nelson’s (2005) A Wreath for Emmett Till interrogates the horrors ofthe past (the unjust murder of Emmett Till) and encourages us to feel empathy for him (as well as for his mother), and to “speak now, or bear unforgettable shame”(Sonnet XIV) .  \nEmpathy has developed in its modern use from its roots in individual anatomy and aesthetics, and has expanded to include “[t]he ability to understa","cbCaigItXHrWOe1u","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaigItXHrWOe1u","pdf",406377,"English","# Abstract\n## Definitions and contestation\n## Etymology and distinction\n## Empathy without tolerance\n## Pedagogical and literary examples","[{\"question\":\"Why is empathy considered a contested keyword in education?\",\"answer\":\"The term is linked to over 27 different counseling definitions and remains contested due to its potentially asymmetrical use in teaching and possible gendered, racial, or cultural bias.\"},{\"question\":\"What are the key etymological roots discussed for empathy?\",\"answer\":\"Empathy is traced to German Einfühlung (first translated into English in 1895) and German empathie (translated into English in 1903), emphasizing different notions tied to internal experience.\"},{\"question\":\"Does the text argue that empathy necessarily involves tolerance?\",\"answer\":\"No. It notes that empathy does not presuppose tolerance, citing Julius Streicher’s anti-Semitic children’s books as an example of empathetic disposition without humane outcomes.\"}]","Empathy | PDF",1792079832]