Teaching as an interaction process, in which educational, functional, and upbringing tasks are intertwined, unites the intellectual, emotional, and active aspects of personality development. Oriented towards this concept, teaching must provide an opportunity for students to develop many organizational components through organizational activities, among which empathy has a significant place. As the ability to respect, understand and experience the feelings of others, empathy in teaching can be developed by those forms of teaching that are based on a cooperative relationship and full engagement of students in the process of acquiring knowledge and exchanging experiences. As the pedagogical workshop is an innovative form of teaching that is based on these features, the paper aims to review previous research in this area to indicate its role, opportunities, and importance in the process of developing empathy in students. The main conclusions are: the application of collaborative activities has positive effects on the emotional development of students and encourages empathy; the activity of participants based on personal experience presupposes more positive results on the students emotional development; creating circumstances for students to feel different emotions, role plays, simulations, the use of dramatic content were singled out as the most effective activities in teaching. The workshop provides an opportunity to combine different activities, and is recognized as the greatest potential that teachers can use in their practice to emphasize the em
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