Service-Learning and Critical Emotion Studies: On the Perils of Empathy and the Politics of Compassion.
Year: 2011
Type: article
Abstract: This article explores the mutually enriching bodies of scholarship in service-learning and Critical Emotion Studies with a focus on empathy and compassion, which, perhaps more than any other emotions, hold a prominent place in service-learning literature.We offer an overview of nascent research on empathy and compassion in Critical Emotion Studies and we review the ways in which empathy and compassion commonly circulate in service-learning literature.Finally, we discuss a specific service-learning course, "Literature of HIV/AIDS," to demonstrate strategies for addressing the perils of empathy and the politics of compassion in service-learning pedagogy and scholarship.
Authors: Lisa Langstraat, Melody Bowdon
Language: English
Subfield: Education
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2991895224