Empathy in EducationEmpathy can be termed as a non-cognitive skill, soft skill or

social skill. It is a main thing that needs to be included in

Education as it builds positive classroom culture, enables

the students to strengthen relationship with other students

and develops leadership skills.

Empathy means the ability of a person to understand the

condition, thoughts and emotions of another person from

their perspective (i.e feel the feelings of another by

standing in their position). It is a positive psychological and

intellectual identification process. Cognitive (empathy by

thought), emotional (feel the emotions) and somatic or

compassionate (feel the pain and take action) are the types

of empathy.

Role of empathy in education:-

In 2012, researchers at McGill University in Montreal found

a direct connection between empathy and learning capacity.

It is part of social and emotional learning (SEL) as it helps

the students to manage emotions, establish relationships

and solve life problems. It is an underlying foundation for

student-teacher interaction that enables to know and

connect with each other. This help the students to get rid of

stress that affects their learning, brain development,

memory power, reasoning ability and self control.

Positive relationships can be developed with the help of

empathy skills. It enables the students to listen to others,

understand & learn verbal and non verbal cues and

appreciate the differences in others.

Empathy stands as a main factor in developing leadership

skills in students as a leader is expected to understand the

thoughts and feelings of other people, expose their care

towards them and value them as this will build trust by the

followers on the leaders.

Empathy motivates social behavior and enables the

students to be co-operative with others which is needed for

life time. To cultivate empathy for learning education

institutions can include role playing games, non-cognitive

skills education, promote emotional literacy and make

classroom teaching interactive.

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