Understanding teacher emotions: Implications for teacher education

Understanding teacher emotions: Implications for teacher education

• Chen, Junjun The Hong Kong Institute of Education

The Asia Leadership Roundtable 2016: Surfacing indigenous leader practices (knowledge) (2016: National Institute of Education & Hotel Grand Pacific, Singapore)

• M Teachers & Education for Teachers
  • MA Professional Education for Teachers

Emotion Teacher Emotions Hong Kong Education Chinese Education Instrument Development

• Hong Kong
• China

• 1997.7 onwards

• Post-Secondary Education

This study aims to understand teacher emotions through interviewing 25 and surveying 1492 primary teachers in China using a mixed method. Deductive content analysis was employed to analyze the data allocating the five nested ecological system – microsystem, mesosystem, exosystem, macro-system, and chronosystem. Results show that the number of emotions that teachers reported decreased as the distance from the teachers increased. The highest intensity of teacher emotions, especially with regard to teacher-student interaction and classroom management, was reported at the microsystem level. Given the powerful role that emotions and relationships play in teaching and learning, it is critical for teacher education in both preservice and inservice settings to support the development of knowledge and skills for emotional self-regulation, the nurturing of relationships in classrooms, and the improvement of their will-being.

Paper presented at the Asia Leadership Roundtable 2016: Surfacing indigenous leader practices (knowledge), National Institute of Education & Hotel Grand Pacific, Singapore.

• English

Conference Papers

https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/bibs/5cde0bf6

2016-03-14