TY - JOUR
AU - Stetz, Margaret D.
AB - REVIEW Nadine Dolby, Rethinking Multicultural Education for the Next Generation: The New Empathy and Social Justice. New York and Abingdon: Routledge, 2012. 166 pp. Hardback $130/£80.00; paperback $38.95/£23.99. ISBN: 978-0-415-89606-1 (hardback); 978-0-415-89607-8 (paperback). Ideally, a multicultural education in social justice would come in many forms. In 2012, for instance, the global television-watching audience saw the film dir- ector Danny Boyle use a most unlikely medium – the opening ceremony of the Summer Olympics – to retell the history of Britain in a way meant to raise awareness about everything from the destruction of pastoral landscapes by machinery, to the sufferings of industrial workers, to women’s campaigns for equality, to the value of a National Health Service. At the end, Boyle pro- moted his utopian vision of multi-ethnic coalitions and interracial love through a rocking urban house party filled with diverse young dancers. Whether this lavish spectacle managed, however, to make a political impact on even a single viewer is anyone’s guess. Once it was over, the only part being talked about was James Bond’s meeting with the Queen and her Welsh corgis. There is, in other words, reason to doubt that the passive consumption of in- formation by way 
TI - Why and How Should We Teach Empathy?
JF - Journal of Human Rights Practice
DO - 10.1093/jhuman/hut007
DA - 2013-07-31
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/why-and-how-should-we-teach-empathy-SXEh0MFO1I
SP - 398
EP - 400
VL - 5
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -