Many in today's society recognize the ability to empathize with others as an important personal virtue. In the context of higher education, extending empathy to students is regarded as a strategy that educators can employ to retain students and help them to succeed in their classes. Beyond its utility as a virtue and its role in student success,…

In this paper, I consider pedagogical moments when the project of pedagogy is to "not understand," as understanding would entail complicity with dehumanization. I explore the slipperiness of understanding and parse when understanding is helpful and when it reinscribes structures of dehumanization. I examine when it might be important in…

In this article, we engage in a discussion about how we came to Torres' Rights of the Learner (RotL) and how these ideas can transform the way we teach mathematics and the ways our students learn mathematics. This article serves to introduce teachers and teacher educators to the RotL and to remind ourselves that before one can rehumanize our…

To assist faculty members in relating more openly and personally with students the Oshkosh Counseling Center (University of Winconsin) provided a program for faculty volunteers. Faculty and student reactions supported the authors' contention that counselors can successfully provide inservice training in human relations and affective education.…