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This Second Edition contains key themes with all new contributors and is a completely separate work from the first. Emotion in Organization presents original work from leading scholars in the field, they engage with emotion as a qualitative phenomenon which shapes and is shaped by organizational life. Examining how emotion cannot be simply separated from thinking, judgment, decision-making and other so-called rational organizational processes, the book challenges us to build a passionate theory of organizations. The introduction reviews the expansion of organizational emotion studies and their appeal to several social-scientific disciplines. Divided into four parts, the book reveals through stories, interview
How Children Manage Emotion in Schools
How Children Manage Emotion in Schools
This chapter considers the emotion work of children at school. This is not a fashionable topic among educationalists or among sociologists, at any rate in the UK. Education policy currently emphasizes the child as object of the education system, and, in Durkheimian tradition, regards education as adult work aimed at socializing children towards adequate citizenship. The future of children as adults is prioritized over their present. In this scenario, children's work, their own opinions about education, their experiences of the school day, their activity in managing their bodies and minds are rarely considered. By contrast, we start from the sociology of childhood and understand children as agents who interact with the structures ...
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