Affect and Social Studies Teaching: Methods and Findings From a Dissertation Study (Poster 18)

• In Event: AERA Poster Session 10
  In Poster Session: Evaluating Social Studies Teaching and Learning (San Diego)

Abstract

Historically, social studies teaching (and teacher education) discourses have focused on the cognitive registers, both in how teachers teach—their inquiries, objectives, and aims—and in how social studies teaching lives are imagined to be lived (and felt). This proposed paper aims to present my methods and findings from my recently-completed dissertation study, and it is a study that departs from these discourses to focus on the affective registers, aiming to explore how the affective attachments of teachers are brought to bear in their work. This proposed paper works through the qualitative research methods I employed to study affect within the practice of teaching social studies before sharing an overview of my study's findings and implications.

Author

• Peter M. Nelson, University of British Columbia