Observing Teachers’ Emotional Expression in Their Interaction with Students

• Authors: Simona Prosen , Helena Smrtnik Vitulić , Olga Poljšak Škraban

Abstracts

EN

The purpose of the study is to establish the types of emotions that are expressed by primary school teachers, their frequency, and the situations that trigger them. Teachers were observed by primary education students during their practical work at school. The observations of 108 teachers in 93 primary schools in Slovenia were analysed. The results show that teachers express a variety of emotions with the unpleasant ones prevailing. Anger was the most frequently expressed emotion. The situations that triggered emotions were varied. Among them, students’ discipline and academic achievement triggered the majority of pleasant and unpleasant emotions in teachers.

Keywords

EN

emotion; emotional expression; teacher; classroom; observation

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek
• Journal: The New Educational Review
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 31
• Pages: 75-85

Dates

published

2013

Contributors

author

Simona Prosen

• University of Ljubljana

author

Helena Smrtnik Vitulić

• University of Ljubljana

author

Olga Poljšak Škraban

• University of Ljubljana

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Identifiers

DOI

10.15804/tner.13.31.1.06

Biblioteka Nauki

26469712