Psycho-Spiritual Approach to Empathy - a New Paradigm for TeacherStudent Relationship

Empathy is a mental construct that is fundamental to teacher-student relationship. This article is an attempt to highlight that the psycho-spiritual approach of empathy can enhance the teacher- student relationship and produce conducive environment to needy students. This article assumes that this approach enhance both human and spiritual development of the students. The objective of this article are such as; to impart the due importance of empathy for teacher-student relationship, to bring out the psycho-spiritual writings of empathy from the writings of Sudhir Kakar, and interpret a new paradigm for teacher-student relationship with a view of holistic development of the students.