O'Connor, Kate Eliza. 2008. 'You choose to care': Teachers, emotions and professional identity. Teaching and Teacher Education 24(1): 117-126.
- qualitative study of teachers who decided to care about their student,s which allowed them to construct a professional identity that matched their philosophical ideas about teaching (117)
- teachers' experiences with caring are influenced both by their need to sustain positive relationships with their students AND by their individual beliefs about education
- both teachers' desire to care for their students AND political factors that affect their profession can influence a teachers' professional action (118)
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- the teachers in this stduy work in a place where caring is not encouraged by public policy, and may actually hinder their professional achievements (119)
- the nature of teaching cannot be expressed within technical competencies, but centers around human interaction and emotional understanding (Hargreaves 1998) (119)
- teacher got involved in education specifically to build relationships with the students, but also dislikes the idea that as a teacher she is seen as providing a service to |"customers" (121)
- education as emotional labor (122)
- danger of teacher burnout ? (124)
- need for a healthy distance from students (124-125)
- caring as both a part of the job, and terribly exhausting (125)
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