Empathy and History

<ul> <li> establishes empathy's origins and function in the practice teaching and philosophy of history</li> <li> connects empathy's use in school history to longstanding debates in the philosophy of history concerning the status of history in human knowledge</li> <li> establishes the link between R.G. Collingwood's philosophy of history and the continental hermeneutical tradition</li> <li> begins with a problem encountered in the practice of teaching history and ends by offering a framework for empathy's employment in historical teaching and learning.</li></ul>