Developing Sympathy in University Students Through Digital Social Immersion

Abstract

The reduction of humanistic content in university curricula has undermined the ability of students to impose certain ethical restrictions on themselves. This situation promotes two moral phenomena: the inability to understand the suffering of others and the incapacity to treat them with sympathy. This research aimed to explore how social immersions in a digital format enable university students to develop sympathy. Qualitative and descriptive research involved analyzing 687 entries from a digital log recorded by 98 students in different degree programs and semesters in a private university in Mexico. It was found that the elements of the sympathetic process observed in the students' diaries can be categorized into three types: perception-listening, imagination, and critical reasoning-judgment. Likewise, the expressions of sympathy articulated by the university students were classified into repetition-memory, understanding, and application. These results allowed us to conclude that the university, due to its influence, should not renounce the commitment to train students in the skills that allow them to understand those around them "in their shoes" from their painful reality and advance towards a society with a more elevated feeling of humanity.
  • Referencias
  • Cómo citar
  • Del mismo autor
  • Métricas
Aguilar, F. (2020). Del aprendizaje en escenarios presenciales al aprendizaje virtual en tiempos de pandemia. Estudios Pedagógicos, 46(3), 213–223. 10.4067/S0718-07052020000300213
Ayala, P. (2018). La simpatía smithiana como vía para reducir la aporofobia derivada de la corrupción. Veritas, 41, 69–86. 10.4067/S0718-92732018000300069
Ballesteros, H., Íñiguez, E., Yánez, E., Cárdenas, E., & Benavides, J. (2021). La educación online como alternativa a la educación presencial. Ediciones MAWIL. 10.26820/978-9942-826-87-9
Bloom, P. (2018). Contra la empatía. Argumentos para una compasión racional. Taurus.
Butler, J. (2010). Marcos de Guerra. Las vidas lloradas. Paidós.
Fleischacker, S. (2004). On Adam Smith´s “Walth of Nations”: A Philosophical Companion. Princeton University Press.
Fonseca Hidalgo, J. A. (2013). Interactividad vs Inmersión: retos narrativos de la TV Digital. En Mena, A., de la Cruz, S., Fonseca, V., Arce, J. L., Martínez, Y., Florez-Estrada, M., Mayela F. C. Marroquín, L., Vega, P., Campos, I., Garro, L, Carbonell, S., Amador, M., & Monge, A. (Eds.), Desafíos de la comunicación en Centroamérica (pp. 759–778). Universidad de Costa Rica.
Haakonssen, K. (Ed). (2006). The Cambridge Companion to Adam Smith. Cambridge University Press. 10.1017/CCOL0521770599
Han, B. C. (2014). En el enjambre. Herder. 10.2307/j.ctvt9k4gh
Hurtado, J. (2013). Adam Smith y la escuela del sentido moral. Ideas y Valores, LXII(153), 45–72.
Lafuente, A., & Gómez-Abad, D. (2020). slowU: Una propuesta de transformación para la universidad. Editorial Digital del Tecnológico de Monterrey.
Lincoln, Y., & Guba, E. (1985). Naturalistic inquiry. Sage.
Mèlich, J. C., Poch, C., Palou, J., & Fons, M. (2001). Responder del otro. Reflexiones y experiencias para educar en valores éticos. Síntesis.
Muller, H. Z. (1995). Adam Smith in His Time and Ours. Designing the Decent Society. Princeton University Press.
Murray, H. J. (1998). Hamlet on the holodeck: The future of narrative in cyberspace. The MIT press.
Nietzsche, F. (2010). Sobre el porvenir de nuestras escuelas. Tusquets.
Nussbaum, M. (2010). Sin fines de lucro. Por qué la democracia necesita de las humanidades. Katz. 10.2307/j.ctvndv60c
Otteson, J. (2002). Adam Smith´s Maketplace of Life. Cambridge University Press. 10.1017/CBO9780511610196
Raphael, D.D. (1985). Adam Smith. Oxford university Press.
Raphael, D. D. (1975). The Impartial Spectator. En A. S. Skinner, & T. Wilson (Eds.), Essays on Adam Smith. Clarendon Press.
Ryan, M. L. (2001). Narrative as Virtual Reality: Immersion and Interactivity in Literature and Electronic Media. The John Hopkins University Press.
Smith, A. (2004). La teoría de los sentimientos morales. Alianza.
Suárez, J. (2009). La simpatía como concepto moral. Anuario filosófico, XLII(1), 159–178.
West, E. G. (1996). Adam Smith into Twenty-First Century. Cambridge.
Hernández-Cuevas, L. A., Ayala-Enríquez, P., Gámez-Hernández, C. V., & Valerio-Ureña, G. (2024). Developing Sympathy in University Students Through Digital Social Immersion. Education in The Knowledge Society, 25, e30246. https://doi.org/10.14201/eks.30246

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.
+