PME-NA

Examining, Encouraging, and Enhancing Emotional Engagement in Mathematics Classrooms

• In Event: Engagement and Attitude

Description

When examining engagement, most teachers and researchers often focus on behavioral engagement and less on emotional engagement. In this study, we explore students’ emotional engagement to potentially gain novel insight into the extent to which students’ emotions play a role in academic interactions and learning in mathematics classes. We identified moments in which students displayed signs of emotional engagement and in which these emotions appeared to be directly linked to the mathematical activity in which they were engaged. We then outlined the teacher’s practices and dissected how these practices may have influenced students’ emotional engagement. We aim to expand the literature on students’ academic emotions and mathematics teaching practices by focusing on emotional engagement.

Authors

• Destini Braxton, University of Virginia

• Jonee Wilson, North Carolina State University