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The emotional labour of the aspirant leader: traversing school politics
The emotions of the aspirant leader are underexplored. In this chapter, we detail how aspirants experience the transition from teacher to leader and report on the kinds of emotional labour associated with the transition. This was examined during events of high emotional arousal for 130 school aspirants: when they felt professionally wounded, either by colleagues, leaders, parents or students. During a time of wounding, emotional work and emotional labour hinged on the dissonance between 'display rules' of the school and what aspirants' actually felt. Exploring the wounding stories revealed common display rules, which were often broken. Breaking these rules always had consequences and emotional correlates. The most prevalent form of emotional labour was surface acting. The.final discovery was the resilience of the aspirants as they recovered. Invariably, aspirants progressed through an emotion cycle of Regrouping, Recovery and Resolution. The quality of collegial relationships was the key to resolving the woundings.
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Emotion and school: understanding how the hidden curriculum influences relationships, leadership, teaching and learningSeries
Advances in research on teaching; v. 18Chapter number
5Pagination
81 - 97Publisher
Emerald Goup PublishingPlace of publication
Bingley, EnglandISBN-13
9781781906514ISBN-10
1781906513Language
engNotes
Reproduced with the kind permission of the copyright owner. This article is © Emerald Group Publishing and permission has been granted for this version to appear here. Emerald does not grant permission for this article to be further copied/distributed or hosted elsewhere without the express permission from Emerald Group Publishing Limited.Publication classification
B1 Book chapterCopyright notice
2013, EmeraldExtent
14Editor/Contributor(s)
M Newberry, A Gallant, P RileyUsage metrics
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