Balancing Emotion,Principles,and Laws in China:Narrative Analysis of Dilemmatic Spaces during School Placement
Pre-service teachers often drop in dilemmas during school placement.The study analyzes the"narratives of dilemmas"written by 386 pre-service teachers during their school placement,then finds that pre-service teachers encountered different dilemmas including home-school relationships,peer relationships,and teacher-student relationships,which orient to dilemmatic spaces involving four structural issues of rule conflict,interest deviation,supply and demand imbalance,and role wandering.Furthermore,we extracted a local concept of"balancing emotion,principles,and laws in China"to explain the structural tensions hidden in the dilemmas.The study enlightens teacher educators to understand the professional development needs of pre-service teachers and to achieve quality teacher education through the professionalization of mentoring.