Troubling Sympathy: Teaching Refugee Narratives

• Published in: Journal of curriculum theorizing Vol. 32; no. 3; pp. 61 - 78
• Main Author: Macdonald, Michael T
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Rochester Foundation for Curriculum Theory 01.09.2018
• Subjects: Audiences; Beah, Ishmael; Biographies; Consumption; Curricula; Eggers, Dave; Emotional Response; Empathy; Essays; Evacuations & rescues; High School Students; Learner Engagement; Military Personnel; Narratives; Phenomenology; Psychological Patterns; Reading Programs; Reflection; Refugees; Student Participation; Student writing; Sympathy; Writing Instruction; Writing Processes; New York; Thousand Oaks California; United States > US
• ISSN: 1942-2563

According to Lili Chouliaraki (2006), spectators might express an "awareness" of distant suffering and enter a "process of deliberation" in which "they are always part of an ongoing conversation, even if this conversation takes place in the confines of their own homes - inde...