ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Psychol.
Sec. Educational Psychology
This article is part of the Research TopicCulture and Emotion in Educational Dynamics - Volume VView all 5 articles
Experiences of Empathy and Literary Empathy between children using the LuDiCa (Dialogic Reading for Deep Comprehension)
Provisionally accepted
Bianca da Nóbrega Rogoski1,2*
Eileen Pfeiffer-Flores3- 1University of Brasilia, Brasilia, Brazil
- 2Secretaria de Educação - Distrito Federal, Brasília, Brazil
- 3Universidade de Brasilia, Brasília, Brazil
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This study investigated the effects of the shared reading technique LuDiCa (Dialogic Reading for Deep Comprehension) on interpersonal and literary empathy among school-age children. In the LuDiCa method, a pre-reading analysis of the story leads to the preparation of open-ended questions that are used during shared reading with children. Unlike traditional dialogic reading, these questions are carefully designed to foster deep comprehension by guiding discussion around narrative functions. Narrative functions are what the story shows the reader through events, dialogues, descriptions and other elements, often implicitly. Twelve children participated in LuDiCa sessions of stories about immigrants and refugee children. LuDiCa significantly promoted expressions of both interpersonal empathy among participants and literary empathy towards immigrant and refugee characters. The findings suggest that interactive group reading sessions using the LuDiCa method can effectively enhance empathy, contributing to a deeper understanding of diverse human experiences.
Keywords: Empathy, Dialogic reading, Literary Empathy, perspective taking, immigrant children
Received: 15 Oct 2025; Accepted: 24 Nov 2025.
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* Correspondence: Bianca da Nóbrega Rogoski, rogoski.bianca@gmail.com
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