Open AccessTeacher's emotional labor: conceptualization of the idea and research approaches
Author(s) -
Renata Góralska
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
studia z teorii wychowania
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2719-4078
pISSN - 2083-0998
DOI - 10.5604/01.3001.0014.6566
Subject(s) - emotional labor , conceptualization , psychology , perspective (graphical) , subject (documents) , process (computing) , interpretation (philosophy) , social psychology , test (biology) , qualitative research , sociology , social science , computer science , artificial intelligence , library science , programming language , operating system , paleontology , biology
The article describes the notion of teacher’s emotional labor, which is an important and often neglected subject in didactics and pedeutology. The thesis is that the manner in which a teacher's emotional labor is being conceptualized affects test method and interpretation. The article presents three different manners in which emotional labor may be conceptualized: (1) emotional labor as process of emotion regulation (psychological approach); (2) emotional labor as a work requirement (sociological approach); (3) emotional labor as a transformation and development tool/as a byproductive labor (critical approach). Each approach is assigned to a different methodological perspective which may be used by educational researchers: (1) quantitative research; (2) qualitative research; (3) “new'' qualitative studies.