Keyword: «empathic qualities»

The relevance of the work is justified by the search and development of personal moral qualities, which will contribute to positive interpersonal interaction in the period of humanization of society. This trend has not passed by inclusive education as well. Such personal qualities may include empathic ones. They allow us to understand and accept anyone, regardless of their social status, age and abilities, to help a person in a difficult situation. Purposeful process of empathic qualities development can improve the effectiveness of interaction of primary school students with disabilities with others, as well as promote their inclusion in the general educational process. The aim of the article is to describe a pilot study on identifying primary school students' ability to recognize their peers' emotions, their capacity for empathy and cooperation in the conditions of inclusive education. To achieve the goal of the research the following tasks were solved: theoretical analysis of the research problem was made; empathic qualities were defined; the methods for identifying these qualities in younger pupils were selected; the quantitative and qualitative analysis of experimental data on the identification of empathic qualities of primary school students in the conditions of inclusive education was presented. Different groups of methods were used in the process of solving the tasks of the pilot study: theoretical (analysis, synthesis, comparison, generalization of scientific sources on the problem of primary school students’ empathic qualities development in the conditions of inclusive education); empirical (educational experiment, survey, testing); processing of empirical data (content analysis, methods of mathematical analysis). The theoretical significance of the study is in the clarification and generalization of scientific knowledge on the problem of empathic qualities development among primary school students in the conditions of inclusive education. The practical significance of the study is in conducting a pilot study to identify empathic qualities of primary school students in the conditions of inclusive education. The analysis of the experimental data obtained was used for working out a program for the development of empathic qualities of primary school students in the conditions of inclusive education.