This study examined work contexts of lecturers in Israeli academic teacher training colleges in which they perform emotional labor. This study, employing qualitative method and open-ended questionnaires, and participants included 29 lecturers. Thematic content analyses suggest a three concentric circles model of emotional labor in lecturer-student…

Introduction: Originally, the concept of emotional labor comes from the sociological work of Hochschild (1983. "The Managed Heart: Commercialization of Human Feeling." Berkeley: The University of California Press). In recent decades, it has also been defined in approaches of a more psychological nature within a variety of professional…

Music education is a social act oriented around interactions between people in public spaces. These spaces provide opportunities for what Hannah Arendt calls natality, which we interpret as new and unexpected actions that arise in a shared space. Drawing from a range of ideas and experiences of Arendt, bell hooks, Joan Baez, Martha Nussbaum, and…

Love is a significant, complex, and problematic aspect of early childhood teaching that is simultaneously valued, undervalued, feared, and overlooked. This article investigates complexities and tensions within perceptions and experiences of love in early childhood teaching from a posthumanist perspective. Data from a research study exploring…

Throughout the nation, the rates of death by suicide in the 15-24 age group have continued to rise over the past ten years. In 2016, the National Institute of Mental Health noted that the rates of death by suicide have climbed to 13.7 per 100,000 people in the United States (Mann et al., 2005). The impact of each death by suicide touches the lives…

Teacher-student relationships (TSRs) are key factors for at-risk students. However, little is known regarding how TSRs are built through interactions with students with neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs). This study provides an in-depth analysis of a teacher's relational competence in relation to a student with NDD symptoms. We used microscopic…

This book incorporates both practice-based information and research to underpin teachers' emotions in the teaching and learning settings of second language (L2) writing, in the Chinese tertiary educational context. It introduces and validates a new conceptual framework for evaluating the causes and effects of the emotions of L2 writing teachers…

Frustration is a common emotional experience in teachers' lives. Despite its ubiquity, frustration in the classroom has been largely ignored as a focus of study in modern emotion and motivation research. In this study, we bring together an interdisciplinary body of work to stimulate renewed interest in the study of frustration pertaining to…

Internationally, the research on the education of boys has sought to understand how social practices, behaviours and rituals contribute to identity construction. We are interested in approaches to the emotional labor of doing 'boy work'. As educators grapple with the gendered performances and subjectivities of young men, there is an imperative to…

This longitudinal study applied latent change score (LCS) modeling to examine individual changes in students' (N = 1205) academic engagement (behavioral and emotional), social competencies (relationship skills and social awareness), and classroom relationships (emotional support from teachers and collaborative peer relations). Average changes…

More than half of American school children have experienced some form of trauma (Baicker, 2020; Castro-Schepers, 2023; CDC, 2023; Ormiston et al., 2022). Teachers often find themselves in the role of counselors, supporting not only students' academic growth, but also students' emotional healing (Lander, 2018). The stress teachers incur working…

This study explored Master of Teaching pre-service teachers' (PSTs') feelings of comfort and more broadly, their emotional experience as they prepare to work in classrooms with LGBTIQ students. Within the context of a broader mixed methods research project, PSTs were surveyed, and data were combined with a focus group (total participants n = 42).…

Online education may induce different negative emotions and emotional reactions in language learners. One such reaction emerging from emotional experiences in online contexts is academic disengagement, which has been limitedly examined in L2 research. To fill this lacuna, this study has been done to probe into the sources and solutions of student…

Moving to online teaching is an emotional experience for university educators. With increased demand for online learning, understanding emotions associated with this change is important so support can be provided. In a novel use of the Kübler-Ross model to illuminate educators' emotions about transitioning online, this study analysed texts from a…

Little is known about discrete emotions experienced by mathematics teachers beyond mathematics anxiety in elementary school. In order to fill this gap, the aim of this research is to identify emotions, and their triggering situations, experienced by secondary school Mexican mathematics teachers inside and outside of the classroom. This research…