Journal article
Emotional climate of a pre-service science teacher education class in Bhutan
Cultural Studies of Science Education, Vol.11(3), pp.603-628
2016
Abstract
This study explored pre-service secondary science teachers’ perceptions of classroom emotional climate in the context of the Bhutanese macro-social policy of Gross National Happiness. Drawing upon sociological perspectives of human emotions and using Interaction Ritual Theory this study investigated how pre-service science teachers may be supported in their professional development. It was a multi-method study involving video and audio recordings of teaching episodes supported by interviews and the researcher’s diary. Students also registered their perceptions of the emotional climate of their classroom at 3-minute intervals using audience response technology. In this way, emotional events were identified for video analysis. The findings of this study highlighted that the activities pre-service teachers engaged in matter to them. Positive emotional climate was identified in activities involving students’ presentations using video clips and models, coteaching, and interactive whole class discussions. Decreases in emotional climate were identified during formal lectures and when unprepared presenters led presentations. Emotions such as frustration and disappointment characterized classes with negative emotional climate. The enabling conditions to sustain a positive emotional climate are identified. Implications for sustaining macro-social policy about Gross National Happiness are considered in light of the climate that develops in science teacher education classes.
Details
- Title
- Emotional climate of a pre-service science teacher education class in Bhutan
- Authors/Creators
- S. Rinchen (Author/Creator) - Royal University of BhutanS.M. Ritchie (Author/Creator) - Murdoch UniversityA. Bellocchi (Author/Creator) - Queensland University of Technology
- Publication Details
- Cultural Studies of Science Education, Vol.11(3), pp.603-628
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Identifiers
- 991005545102307891
- Copyright
- © 2016 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht
- Murdoch Affiliation
- Murdoch University
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
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