Leading Empathic Engagement Through Teamwork Interaction in Classroom

Alimul Muniroh

Abstract


Abstract: Emphatic engagement in the classroom is feeling of students who perceive connected with their friends in learning activities in the classroom. Emphatic engagement is very important to emerge respect to the others, to be awarded of the diversity in life and to realize and concern to human beings. Empathic engagement can be taught from an early age in primary school students. With the right methods, students in elementary school can have a sense of empathy for the involvement of their friends that it will be very useful to give the best practice to adulthood process. The study aimed to explain how an empathic engagement was taught in primary school students. Emphatic engagement is through teamwork interaction in the classroom. Subjects of the research were students aged 9 years in primary school in Lamongan. The results showed that the teamwork interaction in classroom used by teachers in learning could deliver an empathic engagement. Students with an empathic engagement have awareness to always care for their fellow students and seek to participate in every learning activity in the classroom.

Key words: empathic engagement, interaction, teamwork

 

Abstrak: Keterlibatan empatik di kelas adalah perasaan siswa yang merasa terhubung dengan teman mereka dalam kegiatan belajar di kelas. Keterlibatan empatik sangat penting untuk memunculkan sikap menghargai terhadap orang lain, untuk dianugerahi keragaman dalam kehidupan dan untuk menyadari serta memperhatikan manusia. Keterlibatan secara empatik dapat diajarkan sejak usia dini pada siswa sekolah dasar. Dengan metode yang tepat, siswa di sekolah dasar dapat memiliki rasa empati atas keterlibatan teman-teman mereka sehingga akan sangat berguna untuk memberikan praktik terbaik untuk proses pendewasaan diri mereka. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menjelaskan bagaimana keterlibatan empatik diajarkan pada siswa sekolah dasar. Keterlibatan empatik adalah melalui interaksi kerja tim di kelas. Subjek penelitian ini adalah siswa berusia 9 tahun di sekolah dasar di Lamongan. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa interaksi timbal balik di kelas yang digunakan oleh guru dalam pembelajaran dapat memberikan keterlibatan empatik. Siswa dengan keterlibatan empatik memiliki kesadaran untuk selalu peduli terhadap sesama siswa dan berusaha untuk berpartisipasi dalam setiap aktivitas belajar di kelas.

Kata kunci: keterlibatan empatik, interaksi, kerja tim


Keywords


empathic engagement; interaction; teamwork

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