- Hardcover: 240 pages
- Publisher: Thomas Allen Publishers; 1 edition (Aug 27 2005)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0887621287
- ISBN-13: 978-0887621284
- Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 658 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #131,248 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This brilliant program belongs in every classroom in every school in every country of the world, forever. There's no better way to teach empathy - the essential human trait. (Raffi Cavoukian, singer, author, ecology advocate )
This is a remarkable book. In clear and lively language, Mary Gordon introduces us to the wisdom of babies and shows us how they can teach us - and our children - what it is to be human. Over a lifetime, I have learned that the human capacities for empathy and respect must be fostered from earliest childhood to reduce violence in the world and build a truly civil society. (The Honourable Landon Pearson, Advisor on Children's Rights to the Minister of Foreign Affairs )
This book describes the extraordinary value of the Roots of Empathy program, probably the best program of its kind to support optimal early childhood development and to help communities build tolerant pluralistic democratic societies. (Dr. J. Fraser Mustard, Founding President , The Canadian Institute for Advanced Research )
There is nothing more cruel or wasteful than the marginalization that cripples a third of humanity, drags down economics, and contributes so much to prejudice and destructive self hate. Roots of Empathy cuts right to the roots of this plague. It opens a door that allows children to escape the closed circle of aggression begetting aggression. It frees them to begin the long process of learning and mastering the empathy based ethics that is central to their world and the world's future. (Bill Drayton, Chair and CEO of Ashoka Innovators for the Public )
I had the great privilege of experiencing first hand Mary Gordon's method of communicating with and engendering empathy and emotional literacy in children. There is nothing in this world I feel more grateful for. I believe it is the main reason why I became an artist and a social activist. (Sarah Polley, Genie Award-Winning Actor and Director )
This is a remarkable book. In clear and lively language, Mary Gordon introduces us to the wisdom of babies and shows us how they can teach us - and our children - what it is to be human. Over a lifetime, I have learned that the human capacities for empathy and respect must be fostered from earliest childhood to reduce violence in the world and build a truly civil society. (The Honourable Landon Pearson, Advisor on Children's Rights to the Minister of Foreign Affairs )
This book describes the extraordinary value of the Roots of Empathy program, probably the best program of its kind to support optimal early childhood development and to help communities build tolerant pluralistic democratic societies. (Dr. J. Fraser Mustard, Founding President , The Canadian Institute for Advanced Research )
There is nothing more cruel or wasteful than the marginalization that cripples a third of humanity, drags down economics, and contributes so much to prejudice and destructive self hate. Roots of Empathy cuts right to the roots of this plague. It opens a door that allows children to escape the closed circle of aggression begetting aggression. It frees them to begin the long process of learning and mastering the empathy based ethics that is central to their world and the world's future. (Bill Drayton, Chair and CEO of Ashoka Innovators for the Public )
I had the great privilege of experiencing first hand Mary Gordon's method of communicating with and engendering empathy and emotional literacy in children. There is nothing in this world I feel more grateful for. I believe it is the main reason why I became an artist and a social activist. (Sarah Polley, Genie Award-Winning Actor and Director )
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With violence, anti-social behaviour, bullying, and aggression among young children escalating at a frightening rate, it is clear that we need to develop a new understanding of childhood. Mary Gordon, an educator who has worked for more than two decades with children from all kinds of backgrounds, has discovered that the solution to bullying and other anti-social behaviour lies within each child's innate sense of caring and compassion. She believes that infusing children with empathy constitutes nothing less than a paradigm in our approach to child-raising. Empathy is the ability to understand another person's point of view and respect their feelings. Even the most troubled children can quell violent and aggressive behaviour if they are loved and nurtured. Through Roots of Empathy, her highly successful organization, Mary Gordon creates a rich, rewarding classroom experience that fosters empathy within children. Bringing babies and children together creates a symbiotic loving environment that reduces aggression in children while increasing tolerance and emotional literacy. An interactive experience for parents, teachers, and children, the Roots of Empathy program aims to solve current and future problems in our society by teaching emotional literacy now. In "Roots of Empathy", the innovative, inspired book based on her groundbreaking research and success in actual classroom situations, Mary Gordon shares her vision of a nation of compassionate and caring children who will pass on their legacy of empathy to their own children.
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Roots of empathie livre en anglais,
This review is from: Roots of Empathy: Changing the World, Child by Child (Paperback)
j'ai bien lu la traduction du premier chapitre du livre sur le site de Racines de l'empathie. Pouvez-vous me dire comment me procurer la suite en français??
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Amazing,
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This review is from: Roots of Empathy: Changing the World, Child by Child (Paperback)
Imagine teaching children empathy using baby power! This is the most amazing system for awakening the true human-ness in our children. Eveyone needs to learn about this.
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using kids as teachers,
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This review is from: Roots of Empathy: Changing the World, Child by Child (Hardcover)
roots of emphaty starts teaching children and adults together
about needs and feelings at a very young age. the teaching is by experimenting with the reality of feelings of kids months old and their parents. they learn together about this issue.
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