Educação Emocional na Primeira Infância: Estratégias para o Desenvolvimento da Empatia

This article analyzes the importance of emotional education in early childhood as an essential strategy for the development of empathy. Based on a literature review, the study highlights that emotion, cognition, and affectivity are interdependent dimensions that sustain meaningful learning, socialization, and the construction of affective bonds. The results show that empathy is a learnable skill, strengthened by pedagogical practices such as storytelling, which foster imagination, emotional expression, and social maturity. It is concluded that investing in emotional education from early childhood contributes to forming children who are more self-aware, open to cooperation, and prepared to deal with differences, consolidating it as a structuring axis of early childhood education.