Learn to be a Teacher:A Qualitative Research on Emotional Labor of Student Teachers in Teaching Practicum
Emotional labor is an important practice in student teachers'teaching practicums.In the general mechanism model,emotional labor contains emotional cues,emotional processes,and outcomes.Drawing on in-depth interviews and observation,this paper aims to investigate the emotional experience of student teachers,construct a theoretical model of student teachers'emotional labor,and clarify the motivation,process and meaning of student teachers'emotional labor in teaching practicum.This paper found that student teachers"learn to be teachers"through the practice of emotional labor.The motivation of student teachers'emotional labor practice originated from the tension between the emotion of need,the emotion of feeling,and the emotion of performance.Student teachers experienced the emotional labor practice process of"acting as a teacher","understanding a teacher",and"walking toward a teacher",integrated professional emotional orientation,internalized emotional norms,and natural emotional expression.In this process,the student teachers mastered the strategies of antecedent-focused emotion regulation and response-focused emotion regulation,to"manage the emotions"in the emotional labor practice.Student teachers have constructed meaning in their emotional labor practices,giving them the value of promoting personal development and student growth.Student teachers'emotional labor is influenced by a"relational cluster"of socio-cultural,organizational and individual factors.
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