Empathy Day â 5 diverse books for kids + classroom activities
Use these diverse titles to encourage compassion and help pupils gain insights into the lives of others.
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What is Empathy Day?
Founded by EmpathyLab, Empathy Day helps children learn about empathyâs importance, and have inspiring empathy experiences. The strategy is based on research showing that empathy is learnable and that identifying with book characters builds real-life understanding of others.
The books highlighted here are a selection from the Read for Empathy Collection 2021.
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How can I get involved?
This yearâs Empathy Day theme is âwalking in someone elseâs shoesâ. Resources include:
Van Gogh’s Drawbridge in Nieuw-Amsterdam (October 1883) Courtesy of the Groninger Museum, Groningen
Vincent van Gogh was always on the move, looking for new places to develop his art. He worked in cities such as The Hague, Antwerp and Paris, in villages in his native Brabant, in Provence and finally in Auvers-sur-Oise. His life has been studied by art historians and biographers in minute detail, but his period in Drenthe, a remote province in the north of the Netherlands, remains more of a mystery.
That is set to change, with a new publication and an exhibition.
Van Gogh: Heritage Locations in Drenthe prepared by the province’s museum, archive and landscape foundation provides a detailed guide to 15 sites linked to the artist. A major exhibition, which should include all of the artist’s Drenthe oil paintings, is being planned by the Drents Museum in the provincial capital, Assen.
Drawing on decades of experience, Joe Cornish, one of Britain’ s most distinguished landscape photographers, has distilled the key elements of his craft into a collection of thought-provoking essays accompanied by a stunning selection of his photographs. From his beloved North Yorkshire, to the rocky canyons of the Colorado Plateau, the photos in First Light have been chosen to reflect the breadth of Joe’ s work and to illustrate how he puts his working philosophy into practice. Each picture is accompanied by text describing the conditions that must be taken into consideration before taking a photo; the composition of the image, including viewpoint, selection of film and filters; and post production treatments.
By Laura Porter
If you pay attention, there are remnants of Worcester’s past on every block: a cornerstone from a different century; distinctive arches above a set of windows; a building’s original name preserved in stone.
Although much has been lost to time and new construction, there are also a surprising number of historic homes across the city that survive. Built by Worcester’s most prominent citizens, their wealth often rooted in industry, houses impressive in style and materials continue to dominate quite a few neighborhoods.
Many are in good shape, occupied by families or adapted for business or nonprofit use. But mistreatment and neglect have nearly destroyed others, leaving them ramshackle and broken, both inside and out.
The new owner of
Montmartre Street Scene (1887) is the Reuben family the property developers Simon and David Reuben. In an extraordinary auction last week at Sotheby’s in Paris, an internet bidder turned out not to have the money for a Van Gogh.
Although the Reuben brothers are Britain’s joint second-richest UK family, worth £16bn (according to
The Sunday Times Rich List), they are discreet and hardly household names. But their life story shows how self-made people can acquire a Van Gogh to hang above their sofa.
Simon and David were born in Mumbai, India, to Jewish parents of Iraqi descent. They came to England as teenagers in the 1950s, with David going into the scrap metal business and Simon into the carpet trade. The brothers later worked together and in the 1990s they made a fortune in the Russian metal market. The two men are now among the world’s leading property developers. They also have a charitable foundation, which last year gave £80m to the University of Ox