Through Other Eyes: Developing Empathy and Multicultural Perspectives in the Social Studies / Edition 2

by Joan Skolnick, Nancy Dulberg, Thea Maestre, N. Dulberg, Sean Stokes

Overview

What happens when children develop their capacities to think about how the world might look and feel through someone else's eyes? They build the foundations of multicultural and historical understanding, according to Joan Skolnick, Nancy Dulberg and Thea Maestre.

Full of practical strategies and lesson plans, their book Through Other Eyes is brimming with clear and inspiring ideas for teachers eager to help their students develop an empathic and accurate understanding of history. Devoid of jargon, it employs key social studies themes and the tools of the historian to help students understand the perspectives of others in historically authentic and developmentally appropriate ways. The authors provide a curriculum model - adaptable to any curriculum context - of carefully constructed learning sequences they term the "Thinking-Feeling Spiral." Following this model, teachers can design standards-based lessons using primary sources, literature, writing and the arts. Students learn to understand the feelings of people in history and in the present who are different from themselves (empathize), explore how the world might look through their eyes, and then try to explain it (take perspective).

Illustrated with realistic, poignant and, at times, humorous examples from the authors' own extensive teaching experience, Through Other Eyes will appeal as much to experienced teachers looking for fresh inspiration as to those just beginning to implement a multicultural social studies curriculum.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780887511141
Publisher:	Pippin Publishing
Publication date:	12/28/2004
Series:	Pippin Teacher's Library Series , #43
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	144
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

The authors bring to their writing over 30 years of experience teaching in public schools and teacher education programs in diverse communities. Drs. Joan Skolnick and Nancy Dulberg are Professors of Teacher Education (K-8) at Saint Mary's College of California. Dr. Thea Maestre is Coordinator of the Multiple Subject Credential Program at Holy Names University. Both programs emphasize cross-cultural teacher preparation.

Table of Contents

Part 1	Learning to Take Perspective	1
Chapter 1	Viewing the World Through Different Eyes	1
Chapter 2	The Thinking-Feeling Spiral	13
Chapter 3	Strategies for Perspective Taking	20
Part 2	Social Studies Themes and Activities	38
Chapter 4	Through Our Memories	38
	The Personal History Suitcase	39
	Family Heritage Stories	42
	Family Heritage Through Literature	45
Chapter 5	Through Our Work	48
	Children at Work	51
	The Snow Tiger	57
	A Stitch in Time	62
	Wishes and Dreams	67
Chapter 6	Through Our Migrations	71
	The Buddha Statue	74
	Story Cloths	81
	The Trail of Tears	87
	Radio Message Center	94
	Snapshots of Life in My New Country	99
Chapter 7	Through Conflict and Change	105
	No Loyal Citizen	108
	People in the Revolution	112
	Current Conflicts	117
	The Spirits at Castlelake Beach	117
	Newcomers in Our Town	121
	Owls and Jobs	124
	References	131
	Bibliography	135