TY - JOUR
T1 - Teaching Empathy and Reflexivity in General Education Courses
AU - Zhang , Qiaoyun
AU - Wang , Haochen
JO - Innovative Teaching and Learning 
VL - 1
SP - 21
EP - 40
PY - 2022
DA - 2022/08
SN - 4
DO - http://doi.org/10.4208/itl.20220102
UR - https://global-sci.org/intro/article_detail/itl/20871.html
KW - empathy, reflexivity, general education, anthropology.
AB - <p style="text-align: justify;">This research article explores how empathy and reflexivity, the keystones of contemporary pedagogical philosophy, can be taught, learned, and applied through general
education (GE) courses with an anthropological approach. General education courses aim to offer students foundational, interdisciplinary, and reflexive knowledge of
human cultures and societies. Anthropological theories and methodologies provoke
researchers to understand cultural differences from a holistic, comparative, and relativist viewpoint. Drawing on focus group interviews with students of the GE courses
at BNU-HKBU United International College, the article argues that an effective and
affective way of teaching empathy and reflexivity in general education courses is to
raise a sensitive understanding of peoples and cultures at the margin of society and to
encourage critical analyses of the historicity and complexity of social issues.</p>