Conference proceeding
The edge of counselling: mindful negotiation of emotions towards transforming learning~teaching
Becoming teacher: Sites for development of Canadian teacher education, pp.469-502
Canadian Association for Teacher Education (CATE) (Montreal, Canada , 11/2012 - 11/2012)
2014
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Abstract
Learning and learner environments are enmeshed with a vast range of emotion, yet schools are set up for teachers to focus primarily on curriculum delivery, often relegating emotional terrain to the counsellor down the hall. We explore teacher engagement with emotion (both their own and that of learners) through the lens of Transformative Inquiry (TI), a dialogic, reflexive, relational and mindful approach to learning to teach. Building on data of TI mentoring sessions between pre-service teachers and their instructors, we consider the edge of counselling, a place where the worlds of teaching and therapeutic involvement overlap. Our perspective as educators is enhanced through the inclusion of a transpersonal psychologist during the data analysis. We discuss how: emotions are often inadequately understood, acknowledged, and discussed within a professional teaching practice; practicing careful discernment supports the negotiation of emotional terrain, shared and courageous vulnerability facilitates emotional engagement; mindful intention supports navigation of the edge of counselling; and emotions can act as beneficial catalysts towards transformation.
Details
- Title
- The edge of counselling: mindful negotiation of emotions towards transforming learning~teaching
- Creators
- Michele Tanaka (Author) - University of Victoria (Canada)Vanessa Tse (Author) - University of Victoria (Canada)Nicholas R.G. Stanger (Author) - University of Victoria (Canada)Indrus Piche (Author) - University of Victoria (Canada)Lisa Starr (Author) - McGill UniversityMaureen Farish (Author) - University of Victoria (Canada)Meghan Abra (Author) - University of Victoria (Canada)
- Contributors
- Lynn Thomas (Editor)
- Publication Details
- Becoming teacher: Sites for development of Canadian teacher education, pp.469-502
- Conference
- Canadian Association for Teacher Education (CATE) (Montreal, Canada , 11/2012 - 11/2012)
- Publisher
- Canadian Association for Teacher Education (CATE)
- Identifiers
- 991013136211802368
- Academic Unit
- Faculty of Education
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Conference proceeding