Downloads provided by UsageCounts
Empathy is an essential attribute for all teachers to be effective in class. An empathic teacher is able to relate with the difficulties and challenges that learners face, exhibit patience in resolving them, is able to listen actively and in a non-judgemental manner to her student. She will thus be able to enable a non-threatening and congenial atmosphere for learning. Debate as a strategy for learning can enable the participants to look at the multiple perspectives around a proposition and build their arguments. A debator while preparing for the debate normally puts herself in the shoes of the opposition and builds one's own defence and arguments. A question arose in the mind of the researcher, whether participating in debates will also help increase the level of empathy among the learners? Will it increase their ability to understand another person's circumstances, point of view, thoughts, and feelings? To seek answers to these questions, an experimental study was carried out where a module of debate was used to teach topics of the course Educational Management in the one-year B.Ed. course and the researcher made a tool on Empathy was administered to the students. The sample was divided into two categories on the basis of age, i) 21 to 30 years and ii) 31 to 40 years The pre-test and post test scores were compared to see if the debates had an impact on Empathy of the students' teachers. The post test of the experimental group showed a decrease in the scores of Empathy in the 21 to 30 years age group.
Debate, Empathy, Student Teacher.
Debate, Empathy, Student Teacher.
| selected citations These citations are derived from selected sources. This is an alternative to the "Influence" indicator, which also reflects the overall/total impact of an article in the research community at large, based on the underlying citation network (diachronically). | 0 | |
| popularity This indicator reflects the "current" impact/attention (the "hype") of an article in the research community at large, based on the underlying citation network. | Average | |
| influence This indicator reflects the overall/total impact of an article in the research community at large, based on the underlying citation network (diachronically). | Average | |
| impulse This indicator reflects the initial momentum of an article directly after its publication, based on the underlying citation network. | Average |
| views | 12 | |
| downloads | 8 |

Views provided by UsageCounts
Downloads provided by UsageCounts