Pre-service teachers' emotion in teaching practicum

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Background: Addressing preservice teachers' emotions can help them develop the emotional connections necessary for successful teaching practicums and professional learning experiences. To understand preservice teachers’ emotions towards their surroundings, the researchers used an emotional geography framework to map out the source of their negative and positive emotions and how those feelings affect their beliefs, teaching style, and paradigms. Emotional geographies were divided into two categories (i.e., emotional distance and emotional closeness), which were further mapped into five major themes (i.e., sociocultural, moral, professional, physical, and political). Methods: This study examined emotional geographies of 15 graduate preservice student teachers of Teacher Training and Education Faculty of Mulawarman University during their teaching practicums. Moreover, this study used a qualitative design involving semi-structured interviews with 15 graduate students who completed ...

Frontiers in Psychology

Recently, teacher emotions have become the focus of research in teacher education. Teacher emotions not only affect teachers themselves but also have an impact on their students. However, pre-service teachers’ emotions have been neglected. This study is based on a qualitative analysis of online emotional diaries related to emotional experience expression by 120 Chinese pre-service teachers before, during, and after teaching practice. The results in this study show three characteristics of pre-service teachers’ emotional experiences: the overall positive emotions are higher than negative emotions; “caring” and “nervous” are the most typical emotions and variability in emotional experience across gender and internship schools. Then, it is surprising that pre-service teachers’ emotional trajectories are complex and dynamic, positive emotions are decreasing, and negative emotions increase as time goes by. Finally, from the perspective of emotional experience sources, organizational fact...

Langkawi: Journal of The Association for Arabic and English, 2021

Despite a surge of research interest in pre-service teachers' experiences in teaching practicum over the past years, scant attention has been paid to exploring pre-service teachers' emotional aspects in teaching practicum. This study seeks to fill this gap by investigating the emotional experiences, in particular the emotional geography of a female pre-service teacher who has just completed her teaching practicum situated in Indonesian teacher education, by adopting a narrative inquiry. The data were derived from interviews capturing the critical incidents of her emotional geography while interacting with her cooperating teacher, students and teacher educator. The data were qualitatively analyzed with Hargreaves' emotional geography framework, including physical, moral, socio-cultural, professional and political geography. Drawing on the findings, the participant expressed a wide range of positive and negative emotions such as dealing with a scary-imaged person, being m...

Emotional experiences of student teachers during teaching practice: a case study, 2013

Students' teaching practice plays a significant role in preparing them for the teaching profession. This study focused on the emotional experiences of open distance learning (ODL) student teachers during their teaching practice at schools. A previous investigation by Du Plessis, Marais, Van Schalkwyk and Weeks (2010) indicated that student teachers have to deal with emotions that can be problematic, especially when they have to teach in formal education. The aim of this study was to investigate the emotional experiences of student teachers who were teaching in the Foundation Phase (Grade R to Grade 3) and to make recommendations on how they could deal with their feelings. Students who were enrolled for the BEd (Early Childhood Development and Foundation Phase) were purposely sampled to gather data. The data was collected by means of document analysis (questionnaires) and semi-structured interviews. The social learning theory of Bandura (1971) and the cognitive theory of emotions by Schacter and Singer (1962) were used as theoretical frameworks to evaluate the emotional experiences of the student teachers while they were doing their teaching practice at schools. The findings of this study emphasised three negative emotions, namely feelings of anger, fear and confusion. The majority of the participants indicated that they felt scared. Positive emotions like feeling happy (highest ranking); then proud and pleased were also experienced. These findings are significant for improving tutorial matter to provide guidelines for student teachers about how to deal more effectively with their emotions.

This paper introduces a new concept in educational research and social science: that of emotional geographies. Emotional geographies describe the patterns of closeness and distance in human interactions that shape the emotions we experience about relationships to ourselves, each other, and the world around us. Drawing on an interview-based study of 53 elementary and secondary teachers, the paper describes five emotional geographies of teacher-parent interactions-sociocultural, moral, professional, physical, and political-and their consequences.

2021

International teaching practicum (ITP) has gained more popularity since it is considered as a way of improving teachers’ quality not only in terms of the pedagogical competence but also the intercultural one. Despite the growing body of research on emotions of pre-service English teachers as well as on ITP experiences, little attention has been given to the role of emotions particularly in pre-service teachers’ ITP experiences. Therefore, drawing on the notion of structures of feeling by Williams (1977), the present study attempted to explore an Indonesian pre-service English teacher’ emotions during her participation in an ITP program in Thailand. The narrative of the pre-service teacher was collected through semi-structured interviews, follow-up conversations and online correspondences. Thematic analysis was then conducted to analyze the narratives. The result of this study shed light on how interaction with students and co-workers as well as with sociocultural differences affecte...

Journal of Education for …, 2003

Using Peirce's three categories of experience (1931)(1932)(1933)(1934)(1935), the authors categorized a group of teachers' emotions into different affective states. During ordinary teaching situations contradictory emotions were observed. The nature of the emotions was related to the teachers' level of dependence on the lesson plan and the need to maintain student activity and underlined the importance of emotions in learning to teach.

TEFLIN Journal-A publication on the teaching and learning of English

This research reported on English pre-service teachers’ (henceforth PSTs) emotional dynamics during their teaching practicum in Indonesian schools. Research data were collected from retrospective reflections and stimulated recall with ten PSTs. Deploying Hargreaves’ (2001a) emotional geography, the research sought to portray PSTs’ emotional understandings and misunderstandings resulting from the engagement with school community. This study also examined PSTs’ emotion regulation strategies, as the orchestra to construct and re-construct their belief, skills, and professional identity. The findings document contoured emotional experiences characterized by three major themes, inter alia (dis)engagement, (dis)orientation, and distress; personal support and social acceptance; and compliance, cooperation, and completion. PSTs resort to antecedent-focused strategies to cope with the emotional dilemma due to their contextual relevance, effectiveness, and their peripherality in the school co...

This paper both presents a framework for analyzing situated emotions and describes the evolution of two teachers' emotions during their first classroom experiences. Based on Peirce's three categories of experience (1931-1935), we categorized teachers' emotions into affective states, sentiments and emotions-types. The principal results show (a) the emotional flow during ordinary teaching situations, (b) the emergence of contradictory emotions related to phenomena of emotional hysteresis between the affective states and sentiments, (c) the typical character of their emotions related to dependence on the lesson plan and the need to maintain student activity, and (d) the importance of typicalization of emotions in learning to teach.

Journal of Education For Sustainable Innovation

The school environment serves as a domain of learning characterized by a diverse range of emotional complexities. The dynamics of affect that emerge within the classroom setting may give rise to heterogeneous interpretations among educators, influenced by the interactions and dynamics of proximity or distance between teachers and students. This research explores the emotional geography dimension of female prospective English language teachers in the context of conducting teaching practices during the period of limited face-to-face instruction. The narrative approach method is adopted with the intention of capturing narrative accounts concerning the affective experiences of female student teachers who are in the process of developing their careers as educators. The subjects of this study are female student teachers pursuing education as prospective educators within a state university institution in Karawang, West Java, Indonesia. The method of semi-structured interviews is implemente...