Isenbarger, Lynn and Michalinos Zembylas. 2006. "The emotional labor of caring in teaching." Teaching and Teacher Education 22 (1): 120–134.
- Articles looks at how erforming "caring teaching" can have both negative AND positive forms of emotional labour (a la Hothschild)
- Lynn, the teacher: "I am concerned about the student as a whole person, not just as a student." (121)
- caring teachers becomes emotional labor when they engage in efforts to modify or control negative emotions and perform positive emotions (123)
- this can be both a negative experience (Hothschild) (123)...
- but also maybe an exhilirating experience when they/their students do well (124)
- logn description of teacher dealing with a "Problem student"
- "the exhaustion, the frustrations and upheavals, all seemed worthwhile when i observd reed's progress." (128)
- "Guilt and self-blame were challenging emotions to deal with and Lynn often struggled hard over her responsibility to help students and to realize that caring had its limits." (129)
- "Caring is an inextricable part of her self-image." (129)
- teaching as a calling, performing emotional labor has positive payoffs (130-131)
- it is interesting to notice that some of the satisfactions of teaching come from take more care of others and less care of the self (131)
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