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Sherry, John; Warner, Leslie; Kitchenham, Andrew – Brock Education: A Journal of Educational Research and Practice, 2021
Countertransference and transference have been well researched in the context of the client-therapist relationship, but the few studies look at these unconscious processes in other helping professions, such as teaching. Utilizing a hermeneutic phenomenological methodology, we investigated how transference and countertransference are understood and…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Public School Teachers, Affective Behavior, Foreign Countries
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Bleakley, James; Woolcott, Geoff; Yeigh, Tony; Whannell, Robert – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2020
Affective-reflective skills are an integral component of classroom pedagogy, providing teachers with emotional understandings and confidence that can improve overall classroom performance. This article presents a case study of early career primary school teachers, showing how such affective-reflective skills can be developed through iterations of…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Teacher Response, Emotional Response, Reflection
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Kawalkar, Aisha; Vijapurkar, Jyotsna – International Journal of Science Education, 2015
We present an analysis of students' reflective writing (diaries) of two cohorts of Grade 8 students, one undergoing inquiry and the other traditional science teaching. Students' writing included a summary of what students had learned in class on that day and their opinions and feelings about the class. The entries were analysed qualitatively and…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Reflection, Student Attitudes
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Stewart, Trae; Alrutz, Megan – McGill Journal of Education, 2012
This study investigates the extent to which service-learners' mindfulness is affected by engagement in reflection (e.g., dialogue) and contemplation activities (e.g., labyrinth tracing). The results are compared within and between treatment groups, while covarying for participants' initial levels of mindfulness. While both dialogue and…
Descriptors: Reflection, Service Learning, Metacognition, Affective Behavior
Waterman, Bradford H. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This study describes teachers' experiences of success and failure in teaching through interviews. The analytical framework for this study was based on Activity Theory (Leon'tev, 1978), and the research methods were developed by Herzberg et al. (1959). The inclusion of factors identified by Seligman (2006) and Maslach (1982) allowed for…
Descriptors: Interviews, Urban Teaching, Urban Schools, Elementary School Teachers
Ige, Elaine Anita – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The problem of teacher attrition was reviewed and a mixed-method study of motivational characteristics for years of persistence in a teaching career was conducted. Ninety-two second, third, or fourth grade urban public school teachers who taught for five years or more were surveyed in order to gather quantitative data on the five motivational…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Teacher Persistence, Correlation, Teacher Motivation
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Bosacki, Sandra Leanne; Coplan, Robert J.; Rose-Krasnor, Linda; Hughes, Kathleen – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 2011
This study explored teachers' perceptions of shy children in the classroom during the elementary school grades. Seven teachers (1 male, 6 female) from elementary schools located in geographically diverse areas of Canada participated in semistructured telephone interviews that explored their perceptions of and experiences with shy children in the…
Descriptors: Teacher Role, Foreign Countries, Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Student Relationship
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Campbell, Chris; Deed, Craig – Australian Educational Computing, 2009
The study reported here investigated whether Year 6 boys were engaged through the use of an online journaling tool. This journaling tool allowed the students to self reflect on their behaviour and affective reaction in an online environment. Case study methodology was used with twelve boys from a regional primary school in Victoria, during the one…
Descriptors: Internet, Males, Journal Writing, Metacognition
Pavlekovic, Margita, Ed.; Kolar-Begovic, Zdenka, Ed.; Kolar-Super, Ruzica, Ed. – Online Submission, 2013
The universities and faculties which educate teachers of mathematics for teaching pupils/students of any age group from pre-school age to higher education carefully monitor and compare valuable results of this research, detect the areas in which the mathematical achievements of pupils should be improved at the national level and propose the ways…
Descriptors: Operations Research, Geometric Concepts, Foreign Countries, Mathematics Instruction