Methodological Advances in Research on Emotion and Education

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Introduction to Methodological Advances in Research on Emotion in Education

      • Michalinos Zembylas, Paul A. Schutz

      Pages 3-14

3. Early Work and Reflections on Researching Emotions in Education

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Interview with Megan Boler: From ‘Feminist Politics of Emotions’ to the ‘Affective Turn’

      • Megan Boler, Michalinos Zembylas

      Pages 17-30

   3. The Emotional Dimension in Teachers’ Work Lives: A Narrative-Biographical Perspective

      • Geert Kelchtermans

      Pages 31-42

   4. Using Self-Report to Assess Emotions in Education

      • Reinhard Pekrun

      Pages 43-54

   5. Understanding and Planning Emotions Research

      • Christopher Day, Belinda Harris

      Pages 55-67

4. Affective Terrains While Conducting Research on Emotion in Educational Contexts

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Gauging the Affective: Becoming Attuned to Its Impact in Education

      • Megan Watkins

      Pages 71-81

   3. Navigating the Emotional Terrain of Research: Affect and Reason by Way of Imagination

      • Kathleen Gallagher

      Pages 83-94

   4. Contemplative Engagement with Emotion: Embodied Strategies for Transformation and Change

      • Amy E. Winans, Elizabeth Dorman

      Pages 95-109

   5. Emerging Emotions in Post-Structural Participant Ethnography in Education

      • Maija Lanas

      Pages 111-121

5. Foregrounding Conceptual and Theoretical Frameworks While Researching Emotion in Educational Contexts

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Emotions as Situated, Embodied, and Fissured: Methodological Implications of Thinking with Theories

      • Candace R. Kuby

      Pages 125-136

   3. Emotion as Mediated Action in Doing Research on Learning

      • Cynthia Lewis, Anne Crampton

      Pages 137-150

   4. Emotional Geographies and the Study of Education Spaces

      • Peter Kraftl

      Pages 151-163

   5. Measuring Affect in Educational Contexts: A Circumplex Approach

      • Lisa Linnenbrink-Garcia, Stephanie V. Wormington, John Ranellucci

      Pages 165-178

   6. Where Race, Emotions and Research Meet: Moving Towards a Framework of Race Critical Researcher Praxis

      • Keffrelyn D. Brown

      Pages 179-189

   7. A Political Ethics of Care Perspective in Researching Emotions

      • Vivienne Bozalek

      Pages 191-202

This volume presents different conceptual and theoretical frameworks as well as research methods that have helped educational researchers to study emotions. It includes innovative approaches that push the methodological boundaries that have served educational researchers until now and proposes new ways of researching emotions in educational contexts. In particular, this edited volume provides a historical frame for studying emotions. It connects theoretical/epistemological views with choice of  research methods and describes specific methods helpful in doing research on emotions as they are grounded in different theoretical and disciplinary traditions such as psychology, philosophy, sociology, history, political science, cultural studies, and feminist studies. Finally, it appreciates the contextual and international dimensions of studying emotions in education and contributes to ongoing debates about the implications of our methodological choices for understanding emotion in education. This combination of variety, timeliness, potential for transformation of the field, and uniqueness make this a very valuable resource to introduce new scholars in the field alongside established scholars.

• Academic emotions
• Biographical narratives
• Circumplex model of affect
• Critical emotional literacy
• Critical race theory
• Emotions in learning
• Emotions in teaching
• Epistemic Emotion Scales
• Experience sampling methods
• Feminist theory
• Measuring emotions
• Post-structural participant ethnography
• Research methods education
• Research methods emotion
• Researching emotion
• Self report measurement
• Storytelling methodology
• Studying affect
• Studying emotion
• Teacher emotion

• Program of Educational Studies, Open University of Cyprus, Strovolos, Cyprus

  Michalinos Zembylas

• Department of Educational, University of Texas, San Antonio, San Antonio, USA

  Paul A. Schutz

Michalinos Zembylas is Associate Professor of Educational Theory and Curriculum Studies at the Open University of Cyprus. He is also Visiting Professor and Research Fellow at the Institute for Reconciliation and Social Justice, University of the Free State, South Africa. He has written extensively on emotion and affect in relation to social justice pedagogies, intercultural and peace education, human rights education and citizenship education. His forthcoming book is titled Emotion and Traumatic Conflict: Re-claiming Healing in Education (Oxford, 2015).

Paul Schutz is currently a professor in the Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Texas at San Antonio. His research interests include the nature of emotion, emotional regulation, and teachers’ understandings of emotion in the classroom. He is a past president for Division 15: Educational Psychology of the American Psychological Association and a former co-editor of the Educational Researcher: Research News and Comment, a lead journal for the American Educational Research Association.

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