아동의 공감 능력 함양을 위한 도덕과 교육 방법에 관한 연구

Abstract

At the turn of the 19th to the 20th century, empathy had been hailed as the primary means for gaining knowledge of other minds and as the motivation uniquely suited for moral behavior. In the second half of the last century, the task of addressing was to clarify concept of empathy and process to be action. Nevertheless, it is at times difficult to find agreement of how exactly one should understand empathy. Within the moral education, one of the most comprehensive accounts of empathy and its relation to the moral development of a person is provided by the work of Martin Hoffman. Hoffman's theory about empathy for moral agency and his account of the relation between empathy and universal moral rules are important. Hoffman views empathy as a biologically based disposition for altruistic behavior. He conceives of empathy as being due to various modes of arousal allowing us to respond empathically in light of a variety of distress cues from another person. Hoffman's empathy developmental view is influences to study moral education in Korea. But It is rarely to application Hoffman theory in korean child. So we studied that moral education method and moral program for application Hoffman's empathy ·empathic ability. The task of our research consists in showing that empathy does indeed lead to motivation moral behavior in children. So empathy has played an important role for moral attitude at elementary classroom. Moreover, we should research on empathy for korean children. It is to be hoped that further research will enable children to develop empathic ability The purpose of this entry is to clarify the concept of empathy by surveying its history in various philosophical and psychological discussions and by indicating why empathy was and should be regarded to be of such central importance in understanding human agency in ordinary contexts, in the human sciences and for the constitution of ourselves as social and moral agents.