A Cambridge University study's found children can be taught empathy at school - and it could help boost their creativity.
In a design and technology exercise, teenagers were set the task of making an asthma help pack - while a different set of students followed curriculum-prescribed classes instead.
Results showed the creativity scores of those who took part in the task were 78 percent higher than those who didn't.
The findings are from a year-long University of Cambridge study with Design and Technology (D&T) year 9 pupils (ages 13 to 14) at two inner London schools. Pupils at one school spent the year following curriculum-prescribed lessons, while the other group’s D&T lessons used a set of engineering design thinking tools which aim to foster students’ ability to think creatively and to engender empathy, while solving real-world problems.
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