Teaching with Emotion: A Postmodern Enactment

by Michalinos Zembylas

The purpose of this book is to provide new theoretical, methodological and empirical directions in research on teacher emotion. An attempt is made to encourage a missing conversation in the area of emotions in teaching, by invoking a discussion of ideas that explore how discursive, political and cultural aspects define the experience of teacher emotion. I begin to build an analysis upon which the role of emotion, emotional rules and emotional labor in curriculum and teaching might be investigated. This book includes both conceptual chapters and chapters based on empirical work - and, in particular, a three-year ethnographic study with an early childhood teacher in the context of science teaching - that together illustrate new approaches and perspectives in researching and theorizing about emotion in teaching

288 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2005

Reviews

[Kathrina · Rating 2 out of 5]

Three stars for his chapters on theory and analysis of emotional discourse in the classroom, one star for a weak and unsubstantiated empirical study.

[Michael Tallman · Rating 2 out of 5]

While some of the more general points were adequately substantiated, I found the theorization transparently forced and the analysis of empirical data somewhat shallow.