Navigating the Emotional Labour of Teaching
This session is part of the Resilient Classroom Series.
Wednesday July 17
1—2:30 p.m.
In-person workshop in Killam Library, room B400 (basement)
This session is limited to the Dalhousie and King's community
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“Emotional labour” is a term that was first coined by sociologist Arlie Russell Hochschild in 1983 to describe the process of managing outward expressions of feelings to fulfill the emotional requirements of a job. It involves wearing a “mask” that requires the suppression of negative emotions and the display of only positive emotions, regardless of how you actually feel. Consider a time when you received negative news and then had to teach ten minutes later or when you had to hide your frustration while telling the tenth student, “Check your syllabus!” Performing emotional labour can lead to lower job satisfaction and burnout (Humphrey, 2021). In this in-person workshop, you will:
- Learn what emotional labour looks like in the context of teaching and its associated impacts.
- Be introduced to a set of strategies to redirect the energy and efforts used for emotional labour toward effective pedagogy and instructor self-care.
- Reflect upon your own experiences with emotional labour in your teaching. Group sharing is welcomed, but not required.
Facilitator
Daniella Sieukaran, Senior Educational Developer (Curriculum), Centre for Learning and Teaching
Intended Audience
- Faculty
- Graduate Students
Open to external people
- No
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