Teaching through Emotions

Teaching through Emotions

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Teaching through Emotions
Teaching through Emotions
Cognitive Empathy

Cognitive Empathy

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Betsy Burris
Nov 16, 2021
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I have written before about empathy and its dangers. Turns out I was writing about just one type of empathy:

emotional empathy.

I’m probably way behind most of you, but there is apparently another form of empathy. You got it: cognitive empathy.

Which means this: trying to understand the perspective of other people and why that perspective makes sense to th…

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