Presenters Professor Pat Dolan, Dr. Derek Gladwin
Registration Link: https://ubc.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_1zUtsdHq3yZtBBk
Participants can attend selective or all workshops. Each workshop will provide necessary introduction and context. There will be a cap of 20 participants for each workshop. Participants should be graduate students or faculty at the University of British Columbia or National University of Ireland, Galway.
Zoom Link: https://ubc.zoom.us/j/61835826080?pwd=ZEtXSHA3QytsVUZlZ0JCaTA4TU1Udz09
Passcode: 988559
D’Arcy McGee Beacon Fellowship Workshops:
Empathy Education Workshop Series in Theory, Practice, and Policy
Tuesday, May 4 | 10-12AM (PDT) / 6-8PM (IST)
Workshop 1 – Empathy Education Theory: Intersectional Approaches
This workshop explores how intersectional approaches can be applied in the context of youth empathy education, including issues of equity and social justice in relation to race, gender, sexuality, disability, and decolonization. We will also focus on the interplay between dialogue and discourse as tools for empathy and compassion. Finally, building on the work of Patricia Hill Collins, we will discuss the factors of “Intersectionality as a Metaphor Heuristic and a Paradigm” as it connects to empathy education.
Tuesday, May 11 | 10-12AM (PDT) / 6-8PM (IST)
Workshop 2 – Empathy Education Practice: Arts-Based Education
In this second workshop, we will discuss the role of the arts, music, literature, and sound technology as part of an empathy education curriculum. Also in the discussion will be a focus on the role of non-formal education as a community development model. Finally, using a model of Bridging Worlds as part of an empathy education curriculum, we will look at how empathy education can be reciprocally support in the classroom and community.
Tuesday, May 18 | 10-12AM (PDT) / 6-8PM (IST)
Workshop 3 – Empathy Education Policy: Issues of Scale, Ethics, and Implementation
In this final workshop, we will examine why empathy education is so vital and its position in STEM education. We look at how promising or proven empathy education models can be scaled up for national and international implementation through UNESCO. Finally, we will consider the ethics of humanitarian education through empathy and compassion.
These workshops are facilitated by Prof. Pat Dolan, D’Arcy McGree Beacon Fellow through the Ireland Canada University Foundation, and hosted by Dr. Derek Gladwin, Assistant Professor in Language & Literacy Education at UBC.
Professor Pat Dolan holds the prestigious UNESCO Chair in Children, Youth and Civic Engagement, the first to be awarded in the Republic of Ireland. The UNESCO Chair delivers a comprehensive programme of work towards the objective of promoting civic engagement and leadership skills among children and youth. Prof. Dolan is Director of the Institute for Lifecourse and Society at the National University of Ireland, Galway. Prof. Dolan has completed an extensive body of research on children youth and family issues including longitudinal research on adolescents and has over 100 peer reviewed academic publications. His research interests include Civic Engagement, Empathy, Family Support, Youth Mentoring Models, and Resilience and Social Support theory. Prof. Dolan has extensive practice and policy experience, both nationally and internationally.
Dr. Derek Gladwin is Assistant Professor of Language and Literacy Education and a Sustainability Fellow with the Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability at the University of British Columbia (on unceded Musqueam territory). His research and teaching aim to promote social understanding and relational action on environmental, health and well-being, and arts-based approaches through public forms of education and literacy. He has held research fellowships at University of Amsterdam, University of Edinburgh, and Trinity College Dublin, and he is the author and/or editor of six books, including Ecological exile (2018) and Rewriting our stories (2021). Gladwin currently serves as the Senior Editor of the Oxford Encyclopedia of Environmental & Sustainability Education with Oxford University Press.
UBC is located on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) people.