The life–course formation of teachers’ profession. How emotions affect VET teachers’ social identity.

Autores/as

  • Michalis Christodoulou Universidad de Patras
  • Christina Bousia Universidad de Patras.  
  • Pandelis Kiprianos Universidad de Patras

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https://doi.org/10.7203/RASE.11.2.12300

Resumen

One of the less developed issues in the sociology of education concerns how the social formation of emotions affects teachers’ collective identities. In this article we outline the ingredients of a conceptual scheme explaining the emotional dynamics which form teachers’ social identities through a life-course perspective. In particular, we show how educational and job experiences related to teachers’ social trajectories create emotional dynamics in their identities which undermine the sense of belongingness to their profession. Our methodology was based on biographical – narrative interviews treated through a Critical Realism prism in order to bring to the fore the causal process through which a specific outcome is formed. By researching the extreme case of VET teachers in Greece who were put into redundancy for two years in the memorandum years, we explore why the threat of job loss, instead of mobilizing collective action, feeds feelings of self-blame and of shame which annul teachers’ social ties.  

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Biografía del autor/a

Michalis Christodoulou, Universidad de Patras

Mihalis Christodoulou is sociologist, PhD, he teaches qualitative methodology and social theory at the postgraduate programme of the Department of Elementary Education, University of Patras, Greece.

Christina Bousia, Universidad de Patras.  

Christina Bousia, is PhD student at the Department of Early Childhood Education, her dissertation concerns biographical trauma experiences and she is interviewing people who lost their job during financial crisis in an urban area in Greece.

Pandelis Kiprianos, Universidad de Patras

Pandelis Kiprianos is Professor of Sociology of Education at the Department of Early Childhood Education, University of Patras, Greece.

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Publicado

2018-05-28

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Christodoulou, M., Bousia, C., & Kiprianos, P. (2018). The life–course formation of teachers’ profession. How emotions affect VET teachers’ social identity. Revista De Sociología De La Educación-RASE, 11(2), 280–296. https://doi.org/10.7203/RASE.11.2.12300
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