Empathy in the educational relationship

The present contribution intends to consider the importance that "empathy" as a concept occupies in the educational relationship. To this end, in order to avoid reductioning traps of references which are so much generic as superficial, the word "empathy" is clarified also on the basis of the empirical studies of the latest years and of the evolution that the concept itself has had in the studies of humanistic psychology and developmental psychology, within the philosophical, psychoanalytical spheres. The works ends with some pedagogic comments about the empathy role in the educational relationship.