Roots of Empathy - Dundurn

Roots of Empathy

Changing the World, Child by Child

Published May 2012

Description

Roots of Empathy — an evidence-based program developed in 1996 by longtime educator and social entrepreneur Mary Gordon — has already reached more than 270,000 children in Canada, the U.S., Japan, Australia, New Zealand, and elsewhere.

Now, as The New York Times reports that "empathy lessons are spreading everywhere amid concerns over the pressure on students from high-stakes tests and a race to college that starts in kindergarten", Mary Gordon explains the value of and how best to nurture empathy and social and emotional literacy in all children — and thereby reduce aggression, antisocial behavior, and bullying.

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Contributors

Mary Gordon

In 1981 Mary Gordon founded Canada's first and largest network of Parenting and Family Literacy Centres. In 1996 she went on to found Roots of Empathy, which now reaches more than 20,000 students in eight provinces and has been piloted in Japan and Australia. Gordon is a recipient of an Ashoka Fellowship, The Fraser Mustard Award, and a Distinguished Canadian Educator Award and the Order of Canada. Born and raised in Newfoundland, Gordon now lives in Toronto.

Michael Fullan

Michael Fullan is Professor Emeritus, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto.

Book Details

Hardcover
May 2012
6.25x9.25 in
240 pp
9780887621284
ePub
May 2012
-
296 pp
9780887628252
Paperback
May 2012
6.0x9.0 in
296 pp
9781771020275