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Seeking Understanding of Foreign Language Teachers’ Shifting Emotions in Relation to Pupils
2016
Teaching is recognised as an emotional practice. Studies have highlighted the importance of teachers’ emotional literacy in the development of pupils’ emotional skills, the central position of emotions in teachers’ ways of knowing, and in their professional development. This longitudinal study draws on a dialogic understanding of emotion to present findings from qualitative interviews with teachers. This study aims to provide further understanding in this area by offering a perspective into 7 foreign language teachers’ emotions in relation to their pupils during their first decade in the profession. The most important finding was that negative emotions decreased while the positive emotions …
Parent Training Experiencesin Italy
2017
With this contribution I would like to present the results of an action research project conducted in Palermo by the pedagogical team at the Department of Psychology and Education Sciences between 2010 and 2012. This work intended to test a new parent-training scheme aimed at state schools. The following paragraph will first describe some turning points in the history of adult education in Italy which, in the last two decades, has also included supporting would-be parents, giving rise to a growing number of parent-training initiatives. Then, the novelty of the project is detailed: a main role in it was played by workshop activities conducted in small teams using a narrative dialogue to fost…