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Title: Developing Social Empathy through Human-Centered Design: The Iterative Journey of Designing an Instructional Booklet for Pre-Service Teachers
Authors: James, Carrie L.
Shehab, Saadeddine
Rost, Gail
Keywords: Learning Sciences
Issue Date: Jun-2021
Publisher: International Society of the Learning Sciences
Citation: James, C. L., Shehab, S., & Rost, G. (2021). Developing Social Empathy through Human-Centered Design: The Iterative Journey of Designing an Instructional Booklet for Pre-Service Teachers. In de Vries, E., Hod, Y., & Ahn, J. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 15th International Conference of the Learning Sciences - ICLS 2021. (pp. 589-592). Bochum, Germany: International Society of the Learning Sciences.
Abstract: A critical goal of teacher preparation programs is to support pre-service teachers (PSTs) in understanding their future students and communities. One way to do this is by assisting PSTs in developing social empathy. This paper describes the design and implementation journey of three prototypes of a social justice in education instructional booklet that aims to engage PSTs in developing their social empathy through human-centered design (HCD) processes that aim to help them understand people from varied backgrounds and their unmet needs. Our prototypes were informed by a conceptualization of social empathy that encourages PSTs to understand people who come from different social backgrounds and findings from research that define concrete techniques to empathize with the users. We discuss the design and implementation of the fourth prototype of this booklet and propose a study to evaluate the impact of the booklet on PST’s development of social empathy.
URI: https://doi.dx.org/10.22318/icls2021.589
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