Hugga: la empatía como herramienta preventiva del Bullying en niños de Primero de Primaria entre 6 a 8 años.

Abstract

Bullying is a phenomenon of aggressive behavior that is becoming increasingly common among some students in schools. It can cause physical injuries, social or emotional distress, self-harm, can increase the risk of depression, anxiety, sleeping difficulties, poor academic performance, school dropout and even death. This phenomenon has been approached from various types of interventions, both control and prevention, the latter being the focus of this project, considering empathy as a fundamental resource to reduce levels of aggression and to develop skills to manage and resolve day-to-day conflicts. Based on this, and from the discipline of industrial design, this project is focused on facilitating the development of empathy as a preventive tool for bullying, encouraging the recognition of one's own emotions and those of others, expanding the emotional vocabulary and promoting verbal communication within the classrooms of first grade children of the New Cambridge School, in Pamplona Norte de Santander.