Navigating Emotion Work by Using Community Cultural Wealth: Student Teaching Experiences of Teacher Candidates of Color

• In Event: In Our Feelings: Exploring Emotionality in (Teacher) Education

Abstract

Informed by Critical Race Theory and its conceptualization of emotion work and capital, this study examines what types of emotional tensions one Latinx and two African American teacher candidates experienced during their practicum. The participants often drew upon their community cultural wealth— the knowledge, skills, abilities, and contacts possessed and utilized by communities of Color to survive and resist macroscale and microscale forms of oppression— to navigate conflicting and contradictory emotional norms that governed how participants ought to behave and feel at their field placement. This study argues for explicit attention to power-laden emotion work of teacher candidates of Color in their access to and embodiment of community cultural wealth during teacher education.

Author

• Jihea Maddamsetti, Old Dominion University