During the past decade, Jeffrey Berman has published widely on the
pedagogy of personal writing. In Diaries to an English Professor
(1994), he explored the ways in which undergraduate students can
use psychoanalytic diaries to deal with conflicted issues in their
lives. Surviving Literary Suicide (1999) investigated how graduate
students respond to novels and poems that portray and sometimes
glorify self-inflicted death. And in Risky Writing (2002), Berman
considered the ways teachers can encourage college students to
write safely on a wide range of subjects often deemed too personal
or too dangerous for the classroom, from grieving the loss of a
friend to confronting sexual abuse. Empathic Teaching builds on
that earlier work by showing how a pedagogy based on understanding
the other can transform the experience of learning. Berman begins
with a discussion of several well-known stories and films featuring
literature instructors who exert a formative influence on their
students, including Good-bye, Mr. Chips, The Blackboard Jungle, Up
the Down Staircase, and Dead Poets Society. He then goes on to
examine the pedagogical importance of empathy, trauma, and
forgiveness in helping students cope with the ordinary and
extraordinary challenges of everyday life. Subsequent chapters are
devoted to an analysis of actual student writing - powerful,
insightful, authentic essays about lived experience that reveal
both intellectual and emotional growth. In the book's final
chapter, Berman considers the risks and benefits of empathic
teaching, demonstrating how teachers can play a therapeutic role in
the classroom without being therapists. Teachers who are regarded
as trusting, supportive, and dependable, he argues, become
attachment figures, influencing students to be more sensitive to
and connected with their classmates' lives. Or, as Berman
succinctly puts it, empathic teaching leads to empathic learning,
an education for life.
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