Critical imaginaries of empathy in teaching and learning about diversity in teacher education

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dc.contributor.authorNeary, Aoifeen
dc.contributor.funderIrish Research Councilen
dc.date.accessioned2025-06-06T13:51:02Z
dc.date.available2025-06-06T13:51:02Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.description.abstract‘Difficult’ or potentially discomforting diversity topics and critical, unsettling pedagogies often induce resistances or charges of ‘irrelevance’ in teacher education contexts. In teaching with these topics and pedagogies, there is often a significant emphasis on fostering and utilising the process of empathy in productive ways to change attitudes and reduce social injustices. Drawing on a selection of illustrative accounts from three qualitative studies in schools in Ireland, interwoven with media commentary and some personal catalytic reflections, this paper explores (a) how an emphasis on empathy is not without its limits and restrictive effects in teacher education and (b) the generative possibilities yielded by situating empathy within a queer pedagogy of emotion. This paper’s close attention to and illustration of the limits of empathy within the context of teaching about gender and sexuality diversity opens a new consideration of empathy within a queer pedagogy of emotion and considers the broader potential of this for teaching about diversity in teacher education. Ultimately, this paper advances an argument for a constant watchfulness about how we are responding to diversity dilemmas in teacher education on the premise that such attention can yield new pedagogical imaginaries and possibilities.en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
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dc.identifier.citationNeary, A. (2020) 'Critical imaginaries of empathy in teaching and learning about diversity in teacher education', Teaching Education, 31(4), pp.444-458. https://doi.org/10.1080/10476210.2019.1649648en
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/10476210.2019.1649648en
dc.identifier.endpage458en
dc.identifier.issn10476210en
dc.identifier.issued4
dc.identifier.journaltitleTeaching Educationen
dc.identifier.startpage444en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/17625
dc.identifier.volume31
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherRoutledgeen
dc.rights© 2019, Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Author's Manuscript of an article whose final and definitive form has been published in Teaching Education, available online at: https://doi.org/10.1080/10476210.2019.1649648en
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
dc.subjectBisexualen
dc.subjectGayen
dc.subjectLesbianen
dc.subjectQueer (LGBTQ)en
dc.subjectTransgenderen
dc.subject~Education - Journal Articles~en
dc.titleCritical imaginaries of empathy in teaching and learning about diversity in teacher educationen
dc.typeArticle (peer reviewed)en
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