Teachers'Emotional Labor:Examining Problems and Realizing Value
To achieve high-quality educational development and comprehensively advance Chinese-style moderniza-tion,teachers are the main force.Teachers are not only professional talents but also highly emotional laborers,subject to emotional demands from many sources.However,with the implementation of the"Double Reduction"policy,most teachers have experienced significantly extended working hours,increased workloads,escalating psychological pressure,and multi-ple emotional challenges.This is specifically manifested in the domination of students'direct experiences,the transfer of parents'bad feelings,the management of the school system,and the regulation of social forces.Reflecting on their situ-ation,the autonomy of teachers'emotional labor is affected by specific emotional events,and there is the problem of un-even use of emotional labor strategies,resulting in value depletion and even self-alienation.The paths for teachers to real-ize the overall value of emotional labor include:forming a consensus on self-benefiting and altruistic emotional labor in the cognitive sphere,enriching the cultural experience of teachers'emotional labor in the emotional sphere,stimulating high-level motivation for teachers'emotional labor in the volitional sphere,and promoting the practice of"people,school,and society"interaction in the action sphere.