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Download or read book Developing Empathy on Perspective Taking Through Social Studies Reenactments written by Marilyn Gloria Jaime and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The purpose of this 6-weeek action research was to investigate how perspective taking develops empathy through social studies reenactments. This study, conducted in a first-grade classroom, addressed the research question: How does the impact of perspective taking in social studies reenactments develop empathy? Historical reenactments are the acting out of events that occurred in the past with the objective to understanding what and why people did what they did., The reenactment lessons included the travel of the Pilgrims on the Mayflower, along with the First Thanksgiving, and incorporated historical fiction. Qualitative and quantitative data were collected including pre- and post-intervention surveys, questionnaires, journal prompts, journal prompt rubric, focus group interviews, and a field notebook, in order to measure the impact of these reenactments on participants' perspective taking and empathy. Results indicated that students were better able to perspective take than empathize, but were occasionally able to empathize or make connections"--Abstract, p. 1.