Abstract

This study develops a storytelling-based empathy education program to improve community spirit and empathy and examines its effectiveness by applying it to prospective teachers. The collected data included questionnaires, reflection diaries, interview data, literature and case analysis were conducted to develop the program. In addition, a paired-sample t-test was conducted to confirm pre- and post-differences in sense of community and empathy. As a result of the study, first, a storytelling-based empathy education program was developed to improve community spirit and empathy ability. Second, the sense of community and empathy of prospective teachers showed a significant difference in the pre- and post-test, showing a positive effects. Therefore, this study suggests that a storytelling-based empathy education program to improve prospective teachers' sense of community and empathy can be effectively used in universities. Therefore, it was proposed to operate a storytelling-based empathy education program not only in the teaching subjects of university teacher training courses, but also in various academic areas such as various major subjects, non-curriculum subjects, and liberal arts education.

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