Fostering intercultural competence in a university classroomWorking on historical empathy through the work Chimamanda Ngozi Adichiethe thing around your neck, by chimamanda ngozi adichie.

  1. Perales Fernández de Gamboa, Andrea 1
  2. Apaolaza-Llorente, Dorleta 1
  3. Orcasitas-Vicandi, María 1
  1. 1 Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea
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    Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea

    Lejona, España

    ROR https://ror.org/000xsnr85

Journal:
Aula de encuentro: Revista de investigación y comunicación de experiencias educativas

ISSN: 1137-8778,  2341-4847

Year of publication: 2022

Volume: 24

Issue: 1

Pages: 169-190

Type: Article

DOI: 10.17561/AE.V24N1.6273 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openOpen access editor

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Abstract

Historical empathy is defined as the process of cognitive and affective commitment that students acquire with historical figures to understand their experiences, decision-making and actions. Historical empathy involves understanding how people in the past thought, felt, decided, acted, and faced consequences within a specific historical and social context. In this way, historical empathy is a fundamental tool for the paradigm shift in historical teaching that connects three processes: historical contextualization, perspective taking, and affective connection. In this way, the proposal we present has two objectives: to work historical empathy from literature, a novel and unique approach, and to work it in a university classroom. We consider that due to the exclusion that women have traditionally suffered, their literature is the most pertinent for the development of this proposal. For this reason, we will use the short-story “A Private Experience”, included in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s The Thing Around Your Neck.

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