Emociones y trabajo docente: organizando un debate científico ausente en América Latina

Abstract

This present text aims to present an empirical literature review on contemporary research on emotions and teachers’ work. We searched WOS and Scopus databases up until the year 2018. The reviewed literature was organized around the main research topics and most relevant findings in each of them. The topics identified were seven: 1) The study of “discrete emotions” in teaching; 2) emotions, burnout, malaise and emotional exhaustion among teachers; 3) emotions in teacher identity and professional development; 5) teachers’ emotions and relationships with other educational actors; 5) teachers’ emotions within historical, political and social contexts and educational reforms; 6) regulations and emotional labor; and 7) personal and contextual differences in teachers’ emotional experiences. Additionally, the topic of the nature of teachers’ emotional knowledge or wisdom was identified as present across the reviewed literature, albeit not approached in a systematic manner. Finally, there is a discussion on the possibilities and possible contributions towards a research agenda on emotions and teachers’ work in Latin America.