Empathy Education Based Classroom Through Emotional Engagement during the Pandemic

Abstract

This article aims to explain how empathy education can be taught to students through emotional engagement. Empathy is a mental condition of a person who is connected to others because there is a sense of belonging while emotional engagement is a mental activity where there is individual self-involvement with the activities they do. In this pandemic, empathy and emotional engagement are needed by students, because with this mental attitude, a student can feel awareness and involvement with other students so that if someone in his environment is affected by a disaster, then the student is immediately moved to help the affected person. The conclusion of the article shows that empathy character is needed by students as a result of learning. Therefore, teachers need to design learning that encourages students to have a sense of empathy and emotional engagement that is very useful, especially in this pandemic era.