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Roots of Empathy: Changing the World, Child by Child
 
 

Roots of Empathy: Changing the World, Child by Child [Paperback]

Mary Gordon
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"...this is an important book as it cogently offers us another piece to fill in the puzzle of human behaviour. It reminds us, as David Hume said, that 'the heart has reasons reason cannot comprehend.'" (Winnipeg Free Press )

"Roots of Empathy is rife with stories of schoolyard bullies converting to supportive classmates..It is a wonderfully fluid book, with a hopeful model that constitutes a new model for child rearing..." (Canadian Jewish News )

"Roots of Empathy: Changing the World Child by Child will make an excellent inclusion in teacher professional and personal libraries as well as in parenting reference libraries." (Resource Links )

"...a comprehensive guide to fostering empathy and thus social responsibility among children and adults." (Quill & Quire )

"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 )

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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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5.0 out of 5 stars Roots of empathie livre en anglais, Jan 22 2012
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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5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing, Dec 14 2011
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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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4.0 out of 5 stars using kids as teachers, April 13 2010
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Gaston Madrid "roots of empathy" (hermosillo, sonora) - See all my reviews
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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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