THE CONTENT OF PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PEDAGOGICAL SUPPORT ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF EMPATHY IN UNIVERSITY STUDENTS

Abstract

The article considers empathy as a professionally important quality of a representative of professions of a psychological and pedagogical orientation, which is necessary for building constructive interpersonal interaction and preventing negative phenomena in the educational process. During monitoring according to the method of “Diagnostics of the level of empathy” (I. M. Yusupov), the work reveals that the students of 3-4 courses of the university majoring in “Psychological and pedagogical education” has empathy of an average level. In this regard, it is necessary, on the basis of an axiological, personality-oriented approach, taking into account principles of humane pedagogy of S.A. Amonashvili to develop the content of psychological and pedagogical support for the development of empathy for students. The author develops components, stages of accompaniment, determined pedagogical conditions for the development of empathy. The article would be of interest to teachers and specialists in the field of education, as well as researchers studying issues of moral education.