Post by ndolby on Apr 19, 2013 19:39:28 GMT -5
My current research focuses on the importance of empathy, why it is in decline, and why it is so critical to the future of the planet to reverse this trend. In my new book, Rethinking Multicultural Education for the Next Generation: The New Empathy and Social Justice (Routledge, 2012), I draw on breakthrough research in both neuroscience and animal studies (among other fields) to demonstrate how empathy is an underlying facet of all living beings. I show how this commonality can provide a scaffolding for building an exciting new approach to developing multicultural and global consciousness. In a forthcoming essay in Liberal Education (spring 2013), I expand and further this research by examining the decline in empathy among undergraduates since the 1970s, and make practical suggestions for reversing this decline.
This research is intrinsically interdisciplinary--I draw on a wide range of research and scholarship in multiple fields, encompassing education, liberal arts, and the sciences, including multicultural education, philosophy, women's studies, political science, environmental studies and sustainability, animal studies, cognitive ethology, primatology, neuroscience, and social psychology--among many other fields. I would appreciate hearing from others on campus whose work is related, or who are interested in learning more about my research in this area.
This research is intrinsically interdisciplinary--I draw on a wide range of research and scholarship in multiple fields, encompassing education, liberal arts, and the sciences, including multicultural education, philosophy, women's studies, political science, environmental studies and sustainability, animal studies, cognitive ethology, primatology, neuroscience, and social psychology--among many other fields. I would appreciate hearing from others on campus whose work is related, or who are interested in learning more about my research in this area.
