Event Title
Concurrent Session 7E. Avoiding Narrative Distance: Engendering Identification and Empathy in the Classroom
Location
Room 405
Start Date
6-10-2012 3:00 PM
End Date
6-10-2012 4:00 PM
Description
Legal learners often distance themselves from participants in legal matters, occupying a space of studied reflection in which they observe, evaluate and learn from the participants instead of relating to them. The distance is furthered where there is historic, cultural, psychological and economic difference. Presenters will discuss the role of narrative distance in the law school classroom and the pedagogical value of, and methods for, bridging the distance and fostering empathy, understanding and connection with case participants.
Concurrent Session 7E. Avoiding Narrative Distance: Engendering Identification and Empathy in the Classroom
Room 405
Legal learners often distance themselves from participants in legal matters, occupying a space of studied reflection in which they observe, evaluate and learn from the participants instead of relating to them. The distance is furthered where there is historic, cultural, psychological and economic difference. Presenters will discuss the role of narrative distance in the law school classroom and the pedagogical value of, and methods for, bridging the distance and fostering empathy, understanding and connection with case participants.