Emotional Labour and Lesson Observation

Emotional Labour and Lesson Observation
Author: Ursula Edgington
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2016-11-21
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9811029911

This book presents research on emotion work and the emotional labour of teaching and learning based in England’s further education sector, where an increasing emphasis on marketised systems means accountability and audit cultures have become embedded within everyday teaching practice. Uniquely, this book explores micro-level issues of the managerial policies relating to classroom lesson observations as well as the profoundly emotional, philosophical aspects of these situations, which research asserts cause stress and anxiety for many staff. Drawing on theoretical psychosocial concepts exploring the interplay of hidden or ‘underground’ micro and macro elements of teaching and learning contexts, the book illuminates how the presence of an observer fundamentally alters the dynamics of a classroom. The author argues that it is not necessarily the performativity that creates the stress and anxiety in an observation but the individual’s perception of this performativity and how it relates to a wider consideration of their emotional labour in the classroom. For this reason, the book puts forward a case for ending the formal, graded method of lesson observations in favour of a developmental, holistic approach that is sensitive to the emotional nuances of the individuals involved as well as the social and historical contexts of the institutions in which they are situated. The diverse use of lesson observations as a tool for staff development and quality assurance policies make this a valuable resource for educational researchers, policy-makers, teachers and managers from many different sectors and backgrounds.

Classroom Observation

Classroom Observation
Author: Matt O'Leary
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 239
Release: 2020-05-12
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1317246446

Building on recent changes and debates surrounding the use of observation, this fully updated second edition of Classroom Observation explores the role of lesson observation in the preparation, assessment and professional learning of teachers, lecturers and educators at all levels and across all educational organisations. Offering practical guidance and detailed insights on an aspect of training that is a source of anxiety for many teachers, this thought-provoking book offers a critical analysis of the place, role and nature of lesson observation in the lives of education professionals. Updated to incorporate the latest research, policy and practical developments on observation, this new edition also includes greater coverage of research and developments in the field of observation beyond the UK. Enabling readers to use observation as a lens for understanding, informing and improving teaching and learning, and equipping them with structured frameworks for applying observation, this book includes sections on: Teacher autonomy and professional identity Performance management, professional standards and accountability Peer observation, self-observation and critical reflection Educational assessment and evaluation Peer-based models of observation Using digital technology to inform learning. Written for all student and practising teachers as well as teacher educators and those engaged in educational research, Classroom Observation is an essential introduction to how we observe, why we observe, and how it can be best used to improve teaching and learning.

Reclaiming Lesson Observation

Reclaiming Lesson Observation
Author: Matt O'Leary
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 263
Release: 2016-09-19
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1317221133

Reclaiming Lesson Observation explores the latest practice, thinking and research in lesson observation, putting teacher learning at its heart. Illustrated throughout with practical examples from a range of education settings, each chapter contains a rich variety of state-of-the-art, evidence-based case studies to demonstrate how new approaches to observation can be applied in practice. The book is split into four easily accessible parts: making the transition to ungraded models of lesson observation recent research studies in lesson observation peer observation, coaching and mentoring innovations in observing classroom practice. With a carefully chosen team of contributors, from senior leaders and managers to classroom practitioners and education researchers, this book provides an informed perspective on how to maximise the use of observation, and most importantly, implement proven successful schemes to improve the quality of teaching in the classroom. Reclaiming Lesson Observation is for all practising educators who want to break free from the constraints of performative lesson observation to redefine and reclaim it as a powerful tool for teacher growth, on which to build sustainable, collaborative communities of teacher learning.

International Handbook of Emotions in Education

International Handbook of Emotions in Education
Author: Reinhard Pekrun
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 709
Release: 2014-04-16
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1136512632

For more than a decade, there has been growing interest and research on the pivotal role of emotions in educational settings. This ground-breaking handbook is the first to highlight this emerging field of research and to describe in detail the ways in which emotions affect learning and instruction in the classroom as well as students’ and teachers’ development and well-being. Informed by research from a number of related fields, the handbook includes four sections. Section I focuses on fundamental principles of emotion, including the interplay among emotion, cognition, and motivation, the regulation of emotion, and emotional intelligence. Section II examines emotions and emotion regulation in classroom settings, addressing specific emotions (enjoyment, interest, curiosity, pride, anxiety, confusion, shame, and boredom) as well as social-emotional learning programs. Section III highlights research on emotions in academic content domains (mathematics, science, and reading/writing), contextual factors (classroom, family, and culture), and teacher emotions. The final section examines the various methodological approaches to studying emotions in educational settings. With work from leading international experts across disciplines, this book synthesizes the latest research on emotions in education.

Leadership As Emotional Labour

Leadership As Emotional Labour
Author: Marian Iszatt-White
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2013
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0415674352

This book considers the ways in which the need to show (or hide) particular emotions translate into job roles - specifically those of leaders or managers - where the relationships are lasting, multi-directional and have complex, ongoing goals. The book contends that these multifaceted relationships contribute unique characteristics to the nature of the emotional labour required and expounds and explores this new genus within the 'emotional labour' species.

Video Enhanced Observation for Language Teaching

Video Enhanced Observation for Language Teaching
Author: Paul Seedhouse
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2021-10-21
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1350085057

Discussing digital technology in teaching and learning settings, Video Enhanced Observation for Language Teaching explains how it can be used to tag, analyze and evaluate talk and use it as the basis for reflection and professional development. Guiding readers through these processes, this book focusses on the Video Enhanced Observation (VEO) system. Beginning with a discussion of how it was designed and built by language teaching professionals, contributors use VEO to illustrate the advantages and opportunities of digital observation technologies for teachers, explaining its use and how it can be adapted it to their own professional practice. With detailed case studies tracing how teachers in many different settings have used this system for recording, evaluating and reflecting on lessons, this book provides clear research evidence of the development of many education professionals from around the world. Written by experts in applied linguistics, education and educational technology, Video Enhanced Observation for Language Teaching explains the principles and procedures involved with using digital observation technologies in teaching, enabling other professionals to integrate these technologies into their own environment and practice.

Developing Excellence in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education through Observation

Developing Excellence in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education through Observation
Author: Matt O'Leary
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 227
Release: 2023-04-20
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1000863654

Offering interdisciplinary, evidence-informed discussion and practical resources for using observation as a tool of educational inquiry to enhance understanding and the quality of teaching and learning in higher education, this book draws on forward-thinking, contemporary research. Illustrated with real examples and case studies of collaborative observation from a range of subject areas, it provides a conceptual and practical guide for harnessing observation to better understand the relationship between teaching and learning. This is a must-read book for all those interested and involved in using observation to understand, develop and improve the quality of teaching and learning in higher education.

An Evaluation of Teachers' Emotional Labour

An Evaluation of Teachers' Emotional Labour
Author: Hui Wang
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2018
Genre:
ISBN:

"In real-world classroom settings, teachers regulate their emotions on a daily basis contributing to a persistent disconnect between the emotions teachers actually experience and those they choose to express. Accordingly, teachers routinely hide or fake discrete positive and negative emotions in the classroom, with this "emotional labour" being associated with not only lower teacher motivation and poorer physical health, but also higher rates of burnout and attrition. The current dissertation represents a composite of three separate manuscripts including both a systematic review as well as large-scale empirical study with 1,086 teachers from across Canada conducted in collaboration with 22 teachers' associations and unions across seven provinces and territories. The first manuscript employed a systematic review and meta-analysis synthesizing the results of previous research concerning teachers' emotional labour, their antecedents, and influences on teachers' psychological, physiological, and behavioural outcomes. The second manuscript utilized advanced structural equation modeling with latent interactions to demonstrate empirical support for hypothesized effects of teachers' personal values, perceived school values, and value congruence on teachers' emotional labour behaviours and psychological adjustment. Finally, the third manuscript provided an intensive methodological perspective concerning the measurement of teachers' emotional labour by way of competitive latent models and a multitrait-multimethod analysis of a newly developed self-report measure of teachers' emotional labour with respect to various discrete emotional experiences. Study findings observed concerning the structure as well as antecedents, correlates, consequences of teachers' emotional labour across these dissertation studies make significant contributions towards better understanding of teachers' motivation, emotions, and emotion expression in the teaching context, and may serve to inform teacher development initiatives by underscoring the critical, multifaceted role of emotional labour for teachers, administrators, and students." --

Advances in Teacher Emotion Research

Advances in Teacher Emotion Research
Author: Paul A. Schutz
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2009-08-14
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1441905642

Some reports estimate that nearly 50% of teachers entering the profession leave within the first five years (Alliance for Excellent Education 2004; Ingersoll, 2003; Quality Counts 2000). One explanation of why teachers leave the profession so early in their career might be related to the emotional nature of the teaching profession. For example, teaching is an occupation that involves considerable emotional labor. Emotional labor involves the effort, planning, and control teachers need to express organizationally desired emotions during interpersonal transactions. As such, emotional labor has been associated with job dissatisfaction, health symptoms and emotional exhaustion, which are key components of burnout and related to teachers who drop out of the profession. Research into emotional labor in teaching and other aspects of teachers’ emotions is becoming increasingly important not only because of the growing number of teachers leaving the profession, but also because unpleasant classroom emotions have considerable implications for student learning, school climate and the quality of education in general. Using a variety of different methodological and theoretical approaches, the authors in this edited volume, Advances in Teacher Emotion Research: The Impact on Teachers’ Lives, provide a systematic overview that enriches our understanding of the role of emotions in teachers’ professional lives and work. More specifically, the authors discuss inquiry related to teachers’ emotions in educational reform, teacher identity, student involvement, race/class/gender issues, school administration and inspection, emotional labor, teacher burnout and several other related issues. This volume, then, represents the accumulation of different epistemological and theoretical positions related to inquiry on teachers’ emotions, acknowledging that emotions are core components of teachers’ lives. Advances in Teacher Emotion Research takes an eclectic look at teacher emotions, presenting current research from diverse perspectives, thereby making this volume a significant contribution to the field.

Emotions and English Language Teaching

Emotions and English Language Teaching
Author: Sarah Benesch
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 207
Release: 2017-02-17
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 1317566211

Taking a critical approach that considers the role of power, and resistance to power, in teachers’ affective lives, Sarah Benesch examines the relationship between English language teaching and emotions in postsecondary classrooms. The exploration takes into account implicit feeling rules that may drive institutional expectations of teacher performance and affect teachers’ responses to and decisions about pedagogical matters. Based on interviews with postsecondary English language teachers, the book analyzes ways in which they negotiate tension—theorized as emotion labor—between feeling rules and teachers’ professional training and/or experience, in particularly challenging areas of teaching: high-stakes literacy testing; responding to student writing; plagiarism; and attendance. Discussion of this rich interview data offers an expanded and nuanced understanding of English language teaching, one positing teachers’ emotion labor as a framework for theorizing emotions critically and as a tool of teacher agency and resistance.