Emotional Experience of Caam(2) in Teaching: Power and Interpretation of Teachers' Work.
The study explores the social psychological process of teachers' emotional experiences. Twenty-one secondary schoolteachers in Hong Kong were interviewed. The findings show that the teachers generally felt caam(2) (a Cantonese adjective that covers a range of meanings like gloomy, dreadful, tragic, pitiful, pathetic, and miserable) in teaching. The social psychological process of the emotional experience of caam(2) involves how teachers interpret the significance of their actual work in attaining the teaching goal of making a difference. If they interpret their work as incapable of fulfilling the goal, they will experience negative emotions in teaching. The findings also suggest that the interpretation is affected by teachers' power which is unequally distributed according to teachers' teaching experience and managerial roles.
Faculty of Education, Chinese University of Hong Kong Hong Kong, China.
Kwok K
KK
Tsang
Division of Business and Management, BNU-HKBU United International College Zhuhai, China.
Tsun L
TL
Kwong
appraisal; emotions; interpretation; power; teachers’ work
Front Psychol. 2015 May 19;6:635
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