Emotions, Interactions, and Institutions in Preschool Teaching

Abstract

Between Teaching and Caring in the Preschool: Talk, Interaction, and the Preschool Teacher Identity By John C. Pruit (Lexington Books, 2019) Due to school closures and shelter-in-place orders - both necessary measures to contain the COVID-19 pandemic - parents around the world were forced in 2020 to provide full time care as well as educational instruction to their own children while also trying to work from home or cope with the loss of their employment. But his findings also point to promising avenues of future research on preschool teachers' professional culture, a culture that likely possesses both similarities and key differences with that of K-12 teachers. Much of the scholarship on teachers in the sociology of education focuses on K-12 teachers, and Pruit's book signals that greater attention to preschool teachers could be very fruitful, especially with regard to emotional socialization. [Extracted from the article] Copyright of Symbolic Interaction is the property of Wiley-Blackwell and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)