Levine-Brown, Elizabeth Floyd
(2011)
EMOTION MATTERS: EXPLORING THE EMOTIONAL LABOR OF TEACHING.
Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.
(Unpublished)
Abstract
A large empirical body of literature suggests that teachers make a difference in the lives of students both academically (Pianta & Allen, 2008) and personally (McCaffrey, Lockwood, Koretz, & Hamilton, 2003). Teachers influence students through not only their delivery of content knowledge, but also their development of optimal learning conditions and establishment of positive, pedagogical interactions in the classroom (O'Connor & McCartney, 2007). A recent line of inquiry suggests that teachers need to understand the emotional practice of their job in order to develop optimal classroom learning conditions, interact positively with students, and build authentic teacher-student relationships (Hargreaves, 1998). One approach to exploring the emotional practice of teaching involves understanding the "emotional labor" performed by teachers at work. Emotional labor is the suppression or expression of one's feelings to meet the goals of a job (Grandey, 2000). By exploring the emotional labor of teachers using a new adapted instrument, The Emotional Labor of Teaching Scale (TELTS) and sampling a large, homogenous teacher population, this study found that teaching involved emotional labor. More specifically, findings endorsed that teachers performed emotional labor on the job despite teachers not knowing the emotional display rules required in their schools. Overall, results provide implications for practice to improve how we prepare and supervise teachers.
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| Item Type: |
University of Pittsburgh ETD
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| Status: |
Unpublished |
| Creators/Authors: |
| Creators | Email | Pitt Username | ORCID  |
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| Levine-Brown, Elizabeth Floyd | efl3@pitt.edu | EFL3 | |
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| Date: |
13 May 2011 |
| Date Type: |
Completion |
| Defense Date: |
25 March 2011 |
| Approval Date: |
13 May 2011 |
| Submission Date: |
15 April 2011 |
| Access Restriction: |
No restriction; Release the ETD for access worldwide immediately. |
| Institution: |
University of Pittsburgh |
| Schools and Programs: |
School of Education > Psychology in Education |
| Degree: |
PhD - Doctor of Philosophy |
| Thesis Type: |
Doctoral Dissertation |
| Refereed: |
Yes |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: |
deep acting; emotion in teaching; emotional display rules; emotional labor; emotional practice; emotional regulation; emotive work; natural emotions; surface acting; teacher emotion; teacher retention; teacher supervision; TELTS; The Emotional Labor of Teaching Scale |
| Other ID: |
http://etd.library.pitt.edu/ETD/available/etd-04152011-173845/, etd-04152011-173845 |
| Date Deposited: |
10 Nov 2011 19:37 |
| Last Modified: |
15 Nov 2016 13:40 |
| URI: |
http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/id/eprint/7209 |
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