Abstract
Purpose: The paper explores what emotions do in social science education through two specific cases and discusses the relation between emotion and politicization in the subject education.
Method/approach: The cases are selected from an on-going dissertation project that uses interviews, video and observations in examining how social science education is played out in practice, with a focus on the students. Inspired by Sara Ahmed, emotion is seen as relational.
Findings: Seeing emotions as relational makes it possible to capture a dynamic in the classroom that brings a complexity to a discussion on social science education. There is a relation between emotion and politicization; in the
two cases, emotion signals that a subject matter or situation is contested.
Method/approach: The cases are selected from an on-going dissertation project that uses interviews, video and observations in examining how social science education is played out in practice, with a focus on the students. Inspired by Sara Ahmed, emotion is seen as relational.
Findings: Seeing emotions as relational makes it possible to capture a dynamic in the classroom that brings a complexity to a discussion on social science education. There is a relation between emotion and politicization; in the
two cases, emotion signals that a subject matter or situation is contested.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 66-70 |
| Journal | Journal of Social Science Education |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue number | 1 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2018 Mar 25 |
Subject classification (UKÄ)
- Educational Sciences
Free keywords
- Social science education
- Emotion
- Politicization
- ethnography