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International Online Conference on:
How Can We Build a Culture of Empathy and Compassion?
Yearlong from January 1, 2012 to January 1, 2013

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Throughout the world, teachers, sociologists, policymakers and parents are discovering

that empathy may be the single most important quality

 that must be nurtured to give peace a fighting chance.

Arundhati Ray

Education Conference:
How to Nurture, Foster and Teach Empathy in the Education System?

This page is for the education sub conference. A section of the conference will be specifically about how to develop a comprehensive empathy curriculum for the educational system.  We invite educators to propose panels on this topic.

• Join the Education Conference Facebook Event Page and invite friends.

• Visit the Ashoka Empathy in Education Initiative.

• See our magazines on;

  • Empathy and Compassion in Education

  • Teaching Empathy

  • Empathy Curriculum

• More to come....

To Do:

• Create Education Conference Team

• Create a Sponsors Page

Questions to Address

• As we seek to align a common vision around empathy, we will have multiple opportunities to listen and see different approaches to teaching.

• Does the society we live in force children to focus on unempathetic competition, rather than empathetic cooperation?( This is Riane's question.)

• How does nature teach empathy?

• Does our system provide children with opportunities to learn from nature if they live in overcrowded cities?

• How can empathy be the guide for affecting social change beginning with our school system?

• Where does empathy exist in the day to day relationships between teachers, administrators, councilors, and students?

• How does a strong educational setting contribute to learning?

• Does it show support for emotional development?

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