Empathy as a Significant Part of Future Teachers’ Creative Thinking Abilities: The Case of a University in Kazakhstan

Raikhan Amanbaikyzy and Daiva Jakavonytė-Staškuvienė ()
Additional contact information
Raikhan Amanbaikyzy: Institute of Pedagogy and Traditional Art, Korkyt Ata Kyzylorda University, Kyzylorda 120014, Kazakhstan
Daiva Jakavonytė-Staškuvienė: Academy of Education, Vytautas Magnus University, 03111 Vilnius, Lithuania

Social Sciences, 2025, vol. 14, issue 4, 1-13

Abstract: This study aims to investigate the development of empathy as a thinking skill among preservice teachers at the University of Kazakhstan. Empathy is one of the domains of critical thinking, and this article aims to reveal the domains of empathy of future teachers. The research used some questions developed by empathic abilities diagnostics The questions were tailored to the pedagogy students and their experiences, and only those related to expressing empathy skills, i.e., assessing the ability to empathize with and understand the thoughts and feelings of another person, were selected. In this article, the authors stress the importance of empathy skills and their expression for developing creative thinking skills in future teachers. The results of a study involving 114 prospective schoolteachers (80 women and 34 men) from one university in Kazakhstan are presented. The study explored preservice teachers’ perceptions of the development of empathy skills, which included areas such as the conditions and dispositions for empathy, the ability to empathize with others, and the identification of empathy expression. To summarize the empirical data, it can be said that preservice teachers are able to recognize the body language of individuals and understand others without words, react emotionally to disasters in the immediate environment, and are sometimes out of control in their vocabulary in the immediate environment (they may unintentionally offend others).

Keywords: empathy; creative thinking; future teacher; situational development of empathy; experience reflection (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A B N P Y80 Z00 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
References: View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/14/4/205/pdf (application/pdf)
https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/14/4/205/ (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:gam:jscscx:v:14:y:2025:i:4:p:205-:d:1620833

Access Statistics for this article

Social Sciences is currently edited by Ms. Yvonne Chu

More articles in Social Sciences from MDPI
Bibliographic data for series maintained by MDPI Indexing Manager ().