Apprendre par corps l’empathie à l’école : tout un programme ?

Abstract

These last ten years have seen a real revival of interest for the concept of empathy; it seeks to provide new insights into the logic of understanding and action in social relations. This theoretical work in progress has begun to produce results in sociological research, the psychology of training and the science of education. The experiment combining research, action, and intervention, entitled “Empathy as a means of fighting harassment at school”, and carried out with 9-11 year-old pupils during the 2012-14 school years is a new illustration of it. This project aims at awakening empathy in pupils by physically placing them in situations devised to make them aware of others through their coming to terms with the emotions aroused. The following lines are intended to explain the genesis of the experiment and to give an account of the process and some of the results.

Keywords

• emotions and mental health
• language and interaction
• student-teacher relations and interactions
• investigative approaches
• mathematics (teaching/education/relationship)
• sciences (teaching/education/relationship)