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Building Global Citizens: Empathy, the Limits of Human Nature, and First Steps towards Social Equality through E-Learning Assignments

Building Global Citizens: Empathy, the Limits of Human Nature, and First Steps towards Social Equality through E-Learning Assignments

Shalin Hai-Jew
Copyright: © 2011 |Pages: 27
ISBN13: 9781609600464|ISBN10: 1609600460|EISBN13: 9781609600471
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60960-046-4.ch013
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Hai-Jew, Shalin. "Building Global Citizens: Empathy, the Limits of Human Nature, and First Steps towards Social Equality through E-Learning Assignments." Handbook of Research on Transformative Online Education and Liberation: Models for Social Equality, edited by Gulsun Kurubacak and T. Volkan Yuzer, IGI Global, 2011, pp. 245-271. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60960-046-4.ch013

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Hai-Jew, S. (2011). Building Global Citizens: Empathy, the Limits of Human Nature, and First Steps towards Social Equality through E-Learning Assignments. In G. Kurubacak & T. Yuzer (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Transformative Online Education and Liberation: Models for Social Equality (pp. 245-271). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60960-046-4.ch013

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Hai-Jew, Shalin. "Building Global Citizens: Empathy, the Limits of Human Nature, and First Steps towards Social Equality through E-Learning Assignments." In Handbook of Research on Transformative Online Education and Liberation: Models for Social Equality, edited by Gulsun Kurubacak and T. Volkan Yuzer, 245-271. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2011. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60960-046-4.ch013

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Abstract

With the popularization of global e-learning, built on unprecedented information technology (IT) connectivity and content distribution via the WWW and Internet, instructors have a responsibility to use these resources to build savvy learners who are also responsible global citizens. The Web acclimates and acculturates individuals into a global culture haphazardly. A more purposive learning approach may more constructively promote the long-held goal of liberation-based learning. A more pro-social state-of-being may be realized with designed e-learning assignments that promote learner empathy, reveal the limits of human nature, and provide supports for initial steps towards social equality. This then provides a model for online learning assignment design with an eye towards transformation and liberation. Given the broad diversity of cultural approaches to the concepts of liberation, this chapter will take a non-model-specific approach to this concept.

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