Braverylesson No. 5: Be brave and empathic!
How can you use an Empathy Game to sensitize children (8-10 years) to the topic of shyness?
Shy children are often passive, silent follower in everyday life, who never have properly learned to defend themselves against their own inhibitions. The energy of teachers and parents is often spent more on aggressive-disturbing children than on timid children. As a consequence, there is a lack of understanding and knowledge about how to deal with timid children.
With the conception and implementation of a digital «Empathy Game», within the course of my master‘s thesis, I would like to address the research question, how to design a serious game to sensitize about the topic of social anxiety. Unlike classical, therapeutic offers, my work does not pursue any direct therapeutic goals, but rather focuses on sensitizing the social environment of shy children.
