The Emotional Community of Social Science Teaching
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Summary, in English
In the study, it is shown how an emotional community of Social Science teaching emerges that in part is different from comparable emotional communities in other school subjects, such as History and Religious Education. There is furthermore a dissonance between the role emotions are supposed to play in the teaching and the role emotions actually do play. Despite being clearly related to the specific subject content of Social Science, it is also important to note that emotions are always relational, which leads to attachments and detachments in the group of teacher and students. Emotions in Social Science teaching are moreover connected to conflictuality, multiperspectivity, ideas about ‘the good citizen’, and the subject’s inherent contemporaneity.
An important result of the dissertation is that in emotionally intense teaching situations, teachers’ attempts to use a ’traditional’, rationality-oriented Social Science analysis do not resonate with the students. The examined cases of Social Science teaching therefore seem to suffer from a traditional division between rationality and emotionality that largely has characterized political analysis in the 20th century. A rapprochement between the students’ lifeworld and the school subject’s disciplinary analysis would benefit from an increased use of the emotional dimension and community of Social Science teaching.
Department/s
Publishing year
2019-12-13
Language
English
Publication/Series
Lund Studies in Educational Sciences
Issue
9
Full text
Document type
Dissertation
Publisher
Institutionen för utbildningsvetenskap, Lunds universitet
Topic
- Educational Sciences
- Didactics
- Pedagogical Work
Keywords
- Social Science Education
- SOCIAL STUDIES
- Civics
- Citizenship education
- Emotions
- Education
- Emotional communities
- symbolic boundaries
Status
Published
Supervisor
- Roger Johansson
- Gunnar Andersson
- Maria Olson
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISSN: 2002-6323
- ISBN: 978-91-88899-64-4
- ISBN: 978-91-88899-63-7
Defence date
13 December 2019
Defence time
13:15
Defence place
LUX C126
Opponent
- Jan Löfström (docent)