Empathy Improves Creative Abilities in Pupils by Anjanee Sharma on February 3, 2021 at 4:37 PM Teaching children and encouraging them to empathize with others improves their creativity and can also lead to other beneficial learning outcomes.
Bill Nicholl and Ian Hosking led the research. It focused on challenging pupils to solve real-world problems by taking others perspectives and feelings into account.
The study lasted for one year and included grade nine pupils (ages 13 to 14) from two schools. Children from one school followed curriculum-prescribed lessons, while the other group s design and thinking lessons used a set of engineering design thinking tools that aimed to foster students ability to think creatively and to induce empathy, at the same time solving real-world problems.