What is it about?
Emotional energy is a sociological approach to understanding emotional experiences in everyday social interaction including school science classrooms. This study explains the fundamental differences in thinking about emotions from sociological and psychological perspectives. It then highlights some thoughts about emotional energy and why it is important for understanding learning in science.
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Why is it important?
I provide a brief introduction to some thought provoking ideas about undramatic emotions that are often unnoticeable when being experienced. These include the possibility of emotions being related to objectivity in science, and idea of respect as a form of emotional experience. These ideas are developed with primary data from science classrooms where students were learning with analogies.
Perspectives
This chapter makes a clear distinction between sociology and psychology when attempting to understand emotions. This difference relates to ontology of the human mind: Drawing from Emile Durkheim's work I described how we originate from a biological being, and a social being composed of lived experiences. I describe these ideas in everyday language with examples from school science learning situations.
Dr James Davis
Queensland University of Technology
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This page is a summary of: Emotions, Social Beings, and Ethnomethods: Understanding Analogical Reasoning in Everyday Science Classrooms, October 2016, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-43353-0_7.
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