Using Narrative Cycles to Advance Teacher Educators' Emotional Work and Practice in an Era of Affective Polarization

Autor/inn/en	Cutri, Ramona Maile; Whiting, Erin Feinauer; Bybee, Eric Ruiz
Titel	Using Narrative Cycles to Advance Teacher Educators' Emotional Work and Practice in an Era of Affective Polarization
Quelle	In: Studying Teacher Education, 19 (2023) 3, S.314-329 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Cutri, Ramona Maile) ORCID (Whiting, Erin Feinauer) ORCID (Bybee, Eric Ruiz)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1742-5964
DOI	10.1080/17425964.2022.2104831
Schlagwörter	Teacher Education; Political Attitudes; Political Affiliation; Teaching Methods; Educational Practices; Social Justice; Teacher Student Relationship; Psychological Patterns; Teacher Educators; Persuasive Discourse; Social Cognition; Emotional Response; Affective Behavior + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Lehrerausbildung; Lehrerbildung; Political attitude; Politische Einstellung; Politisches Interesse; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Bildungspraxis; Soziale Gerechtigkeit; Teacher student relationships; Lehrer-Schüler-Beziehung; Teacher education; Education; Persuasion; Persuasive Kommunikation; Soziale Kognition; Emotionales Verhalten; Affective disturbance; Active behaviour; Affektive Störung
Abstract	"Affective polarization" refers to the amount of negativity that people feel for those who belong to a political party other than their own. This self-study reports on our particular use of a narrative cycle model and documents its validity as a tool for doing the emotional work of exploring contradictions in one's practice without the pressure of engaging in public emotional discourses. We focused on the contradiction between our intention to teach anti-oppressive teacher education and inadvertently silencing students who exhibited affective polarization. Our narrative inquiry analysis documented patterns of our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that we assert could help improve the practice of anti-oppressive teacher educators from a variety of political leanings and pedagogical orientations responding to affective polarization. They are 1) recognizing the ineffectiveness of persuasion, 2) recognizing a commonality of emotions, and 3) recognizing an ethical commitment to all students. Practically, our narrative cycle model is a tool to inquire into the emotional work of exploring contradictions in one's practice. Our findings offer a more nuanced understanding of the emotional work involved in responding to affective polarization while enacting anti-oppressive education ideals. Our model also advances a theoretical understanding of how to interrupt the immediacy of time, place, and sociality in the classroom to allow teacher educators to confront their own discomforting emotions. We assert that our narrative cycle tools can help teacher educators turn and face their own emotional and intellectual reactions to affective polarization in the classroom and do so in a manner that upholds the ideals of anti-oppressive teacher education. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01