A Class Divided
Many individuals mislead themselves to think their expressing empathy for someone, not realizing there really feeling sympathy. Empathy is defined in the text as, “the ability to re-create another person’s perspective, to experience the world from the others point of view()”. Sympathy differs from empathy by viewing the other person’s situation from your point of view, instead of the other persons point of view. Empathy involves three dimensions in order for a person to express it from another point of view. One dimension involves perspective taking which is an attempt to take on the viewpoint of the other person. Second, an emotional dimension that helps us get closer to experiencing others’ feelings. Finally, a third dimension is a genuine
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The exercise that the teacher performed in the film A Class Divided reached all the dimensions of empathy.
The exercise that she performed on her third grade class was during a very important time in history. She described how she made the decision to perform the exercise the next day to her third grade class mates on the night of Martin Luther King’s death. Knowing that her students were going to come in with questions that she couldn’t answer, the exercise would really give them a taste on what discrimination felt like to people of a different race. The exercise was thought of before but the white men that were hate talking about the
Jane Elliot was a teacher in a school of a small town, Riceville in Iowa, in which she lived. The town was homogeneous and Jane realized that her student had no experience with discrimination. The day after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated,
After having viewed a few films in Chicano History class like A Class Apart, A Struggle for Educational Equality, and Latin and African Americans: Friends or foes, one cannot help but wonder how it is possible that you might be learning about the intense racism towards Latinos the United States for the very first time after having devoted your life to the American country. I, myself was born and raised in Arizona, a state south of the United States, in the city of Tucson that lies about only an hour away, or around 68 miles away from the Nogales, Sonora, Mexican border. One would assume to know a sufficient amount of history of the neighbor land or at least be aware of some fundamental facts about America and Mexico 's relationship throughout
There was a white passenger that boarded the bus and due to the whites section being full Mrs.Parks and three other passengers was asked to move their seats to the back of the bus. The three other passengers complied with the bus driver but Mrs.Parks did not. Being that Mrs.Parks had put up with discrimination and prejudice her whole life she decided to answer the call and stand up for for herself. This was the start of a whole new
Empathy is used to create change in the world by reaching out to the emotions of people and attending to them. It is used to help others learn and decide on matters that would not be reasonable without feelings attached to them. Empathy helps bring together communities that would have long ago drifted apart, but instead welcomed all who were different. Empathy is the ability to understand and share the feelings of another. This attribute of human-beings really allows us to not only attend to situations as if they were our own, but it allows us to feel most of what others feel because humans are very much alike in some ways. In many of the articles and novels that we have read this quarter, characters from different pieces of context have portrayed empathy whether it was toward
Burton defines empathy as the ability to not only recognize but also to share another person’s or a fictional character’s or a sentient beings’ emotions. It involves seeing a person’s situation from his or her own perspective and then sharing his or her emotions and distress (1). Chismar posits that to empathize is basically to respond to another person’ perceived state of emotion by experiencing similar feelings. Empathy, therefore, implies sharing another person’s feeling without necessary showing any affection or desire to help. For one to empathize, he or she must at least care for, be interested in or concerned about
The Lesson starts by noting that a group of low class black children meet a black woman by the name of Miss Moore. Unlike other blacks Miss Moore was very unusual because she had “proper speech” (42). Miss Moore was well-educated, she attended college and believed that it was right for her to take resp...
Empathy is imperative to teach kids from a young age in order to help them recognize mental states, such as thoughts and emotions, in themselves and others. Vital lessons, such as walking in another’s shoes or looking at a situation in their perspective, apprehends the significance of the feelings of another. Our point of view must continuously be altered, recognizing the emotions and background of the individual. We must not focus all of our attention on our self-interest. In the excerpt, Empathy, written by Stephen Dunn, we analyze the process of determining the sentiment of someone.
The Class is a film that focuses on a teacher who, in his endeavors to help his students learn and succeed, ultimately ends up in a situation that spins out of control and a student is expelled, even though the teacher wasn’t himself sure what should have happened to the expelled boy. The teacher’s name is Francois Marin and his class is made up of young teenagers who come from many different backgrounds, many of them are children of immigrants who come from a number of areas around the world. While Marin’s actions resulted in the boy’s expulsion, Marin did not always fail. Sometimes he succeeded in his efforts and these moments were truly inspiring. A number of times he faced a difficult challenge but he eventually got through to the students. Watching him handle the class was a rollercoaster of emotions. Some moments were inspiring, others were discouraging and disheartening, and some were touching.
Ruch & Julkunen (2016) further define empathy is attempting to put ourselves in another person’s place to understand their sentiment. This gives us the ability to perceive the service users views and feelings. According to David Howe (2013) if there is no empathy this can this can make it difficult for the conversation to flow consequently the service users’ needs could be overlooked this would make it difficult to sense the service user’s emotions. However Tsang (2016) disputes that empathy can constrain the ability to understand a person or their sentiment due to language, or ethnic differences. These can be barriers making it difficult to understand the person and the empathy can be
Strained Relationships, Resentment and Indignation Between the Classes in Great Expectations Great expectations is a profound story. It contains the theme of love,
A Class Divided The film A Class Divided was designed to show students why it is important not to judge people by how they look, but rather who they are inside. This is a very important lesson to learn: people spend too much time looking at people not for who they are but for what ETHNITICY they are. One variable that I liked about the film is that it showed the children how it felt to be on both sides of the spectrum. The HYPOTHESIS of the workshop was that if you out a child and let them experience what it is like to be in the group that is not wanted because of how they look and then make the other group the better people group that the child will have a better understanding of not to judge a person because of how they look but instead who they are as people. I liked the workshop because it made everyone that participated in it, even the adults that took it later on, realize that you can REHABILITAE ones way of thinking.
The movie “The Class Divided” was a very inspirational movie because it taught a lesson on discrimination and racism. The film covers Jane Elliot experience with the “eye-color” exercise and it shows how the participants responded to being a victim of discrimination. The teacher who came up with the exercise was a third grade –teacher that wanted to explain to her kids the reasons behind Martin Luther King death. She divided each class she taught up by their eye color and treated them according to whatever eye color was more superior that day. Her lesson influenced and inspired the younger kids and older adults because it taught them a life learning lesson that could stick with them for years to come.
Social class, as defined by the film, is something that affects who you are as a person. In the film, the people saw class as the defining factor of a person. They saw class as a barrier between people. If one person is in a different class than another person, then obviously, they are not supposed to associate. They allowed their social class to dictate their action each day. It was amazing to me just how much the people in the film allowed their class to truly define them and really serve as a boundary in their life. The people in the film lived their daily life with their social class as the most influential factor. Their worth and value as individuals was not determined by anything else except the amount of money they had. It was really interesting to see how the amount of money a person had somehow equated with their worth in society. The same is true within our society today, but in the film, this aspect was especially evident. The film really shed a light on just how impactful social class is and just how much we allow it to
Growing up in one of the most developed nations in the world, the United States of America allows for opportunity for an individual to become successful and prosper financially. American sociologist, C. Wright Mills, argued that power was held within most of the individuals in the political, military and corporate sectors. After watching the film Inequality for All, my perspective on social inequality has influenced my perspective on social class.
It is about the personal understanding and treatment of the patient as an individual, interpreting the situation from their perspective. Gain a complete understanding grounded in professional and research-based knowledge of clinical practice; personal reflection and a consciousness of the patient’s attitudes, beliefs and behaviours. (Olckers, Gibbs & Duncan 2007: 2-3) Empathy involves gaining insight into patients’ backgrounds, core values, relationships and medical history through dialogue. Chochinov 2007: 1877 - 1877. Reflective Dimension:..