Recognizing the Humanizing Emotional Labor Within Young Children’s Analysis of Video Data

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Abstract

In the post-COVID era, man early educational stakeholders have expressed worry about children’s loss of Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) opportunities, with hopes to correct for this through formal instruction. However, in this paper we invited them to interpret a video of their own play, we observed the emotional labor that they were all engaging in, especially in their ability to take on the perspective of other group members. This emotional labor, which we call relationality provided especially humanizing for Quentin, a Black boy, and the ways that he played and engaged with others. This work hopes to recognize the SEL resources that children already bring to school, in spite of being affected by remote learning due to the pandemic.

Authors

• Candice Love, University of Maryland

• Jamie Vescio, Vanderbilt University

• Amy Noelle Parks, Michigan State University

• Samuel Lu, Vanderbilt University