Empathy in the Third Plane
By the time learners reach adolescence, their ability to take on the perspective of another person is well-developed. When you add this to the emerging sense of their own identities and their strong commitment to social justice, the Third Plane is an ideal opportunity to see empathy at work. Except that we don't look for it all that often. Except that we are so fixated on teenagers' choice of dress or hair or music that we forget that, even these, can we evidence of their emp