Empathy in the Structure of Professional Competence of the Teacher of Higher Educational Institution
In the article it is examined the problem of empathy as professionally significant personal characteristic of the pedagogue. It is analyzed the place of the empathy in the structure of professional competence of the teacher of the higher educational institution and its role in the construction of structural co-operation of the subjects of educational process. It was presented the results of empirical research of the severity of the structural components of empathy and the level of its development depending on experience of work. The attention was accented on the necessity of development of empathy of the teacher in the process of continuous professional education.