Leyla and Mahmood : Emotions in social science education
Blennow, Katarina LU
(2018)
In Journal of Social Science Education
17(1).
p.66-70
- 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... (More) - 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. (Less)
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- author
- Blennow, Katarina
LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2018-03-25
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Social science education, Emotion, Politicization, ethnography
- in
- Journal of Social Science Education
- volume
- 17
- issue
- 1
- pages
- 66 - 70
- publisher
- Sowi-online
- external identifiers
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- scopus:85049872528
- ISSN
- 1618-5293
- DOI
- 10.4119/jsse-867
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- 9885d623-2d16-4456-8aed-0c62e83d66a0
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- 2018-02-13 11:50:20
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