Emotions as an orienting experience
Résumé
In this article, I first introduce data collected from 38 prospective elementary teachers after an intensely negative emotional experience preparing to play a game called Around the World. From these data emerges a picture of these prospective teachers being deeply affected by this experience. To try to understand these changes I present a theory by Leont'ev. This theory, based on Vygotsky's cultural historical theory, looks at the relationship between motives, activity, and emotions. Using this theory, I argue both theoretically and empirically that what has actually changed for these prospective teachers are their motives. More specifically, the hierarchy of their motives. The results contribute to work in mathematics education that anchors emotions in a theoretical framework and links them to other constructs in the affective domain.
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