The Capacity for Empathy – One of the Factors Forming the Future Teachers of Musical Art

У статті розглядається один з основних чинників у формуванні майбутнього вчителя музичного мистецтва – здатність до емпатії. Емпатія розглядається у філософському, психологічному та педагогічному напрямах. Здатність педагога до емпатії постає одним із визначальних факторів у встановленні педагогом взаємин зі студентом, які сприяють не лише успішності здійснення ними спільної навчальної діяльності, а й створенню умов для повноцінного розвитку майбутнього вчителя музичного мистецтва як суб’єкта життєдіяльності й життєтворчості.The current system of training teachers of music is focused on the mastery of this particular system of theoretical knowledge, special skills and techniques. The success of a teacher professional musician depends largely on his personal characteristics: value systems, psychological culture, identity and so on. Therefore, along with ideological and training of future specialists, special importance is personal training music teachers, whose purpose is to develop professionally significant qualities of its humanistic orientation, psychological and educational culture, the ability to identify professional. The phenomenon of empathy as a factor in the effectiveness of pedagogical communication has not been the subject of special study. However, the ability of the teacher to empathy appears as one of the determining factors in establishing such a teacher relationships with the students that promote not only the success of their joint training activities through the formation of the participants communicate appropriate level of communication skills, but mainly the creation of conditions for full development of the future. The study of empathic abilities until recently mainly engaged researchers in social psychology and psychotherapy. In recent years, the phenomenon of empathy is considered as an important factor in overall professionalism. The author defines cognitive and emotional empathy. In creative activities emotional empathy is preferable, because it necessarily involves sympathy and compassion. The analysis of scientific literature on the empathy suggests that active teaching empathy is a significant quality professional educator that provides successful interpersonal interaction, which manifests itself in formed situations and dialogical communication, in a joint creative work of the teacher and pupils. One of the functions of an empathy teacher is to provide such assistance to the student in solving their problems that contribute to the development of musical abilities. Empathy is a profound and unmistakable perception of the inner world of another person, his hidden emotions and connotations, emotional consonance with his experiences, using the whole depth understanding of man his and his interests