ABSTRACT A central goal of civic and multicultural education is preparing young people to participate in deliberatively informed action on important social issues. In order to achieve this goal, educators need to cultivate young people’s innate but partial ‘sprouts’ of benevolence, which are rooted in feelings of empathy and compassion. Without a sense of benevolence, students are unlikely to be motivated to deliberate and take action on the needs of others. Consequently, curriculum related to public issues should begin by engaging students with knowledge of other people’s lives and concrete circumstances. By encountering rich and emotionally compelling accounts of the lives of others, students’ sense of benevolence can be extended beyond the people and situations they know best. This forms the basis for subsequent curriculum encounters with differing perspectives and worldviews, as well as with structural causes of social issues and potential implications of civic action taken to address them.

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培育仁爱萌芽：公民和多元文化教育课程的基本原则

摘要公民和多元文化教育的一个中心目标是让年轻人准备好参与关于重要社会问题的审慎知情行动。为实现这一目标，教育工作者需要培养青少年与生俱来但片面的仁爱“萌芽”，这种仁爱之心植根于同理心和同情心。如果没有仁慈的感觉，学生就不太可能有动力去考虑他人的需要并采取行动。因此，与公共问题相关的课程应该从让学生了解其他人的生活和具体情况开始。通过接触对他人生活的丰富而感人的描述，学生的仁慈意识可以扩展到他们最了解的人和情况之外。