Findings from the Research Study: The Observees

Building on the contexts, theoretical concepts and methodological approach I outlined in Part I, I examine in this chapter the common or diverging themes from the narratives which I defined within the following six phrases: rewards and ‘hidden’ emotional

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Findings from the Research Study: The Observees

Abstract Building on the contexts, theoretical concepts and methodological approach I outlined in Part I, I examine in this chapter the common or diverging themes from the narratives which I defined within the following six phrases: rewards and ‘hidden’ emotional labour; performativity, ethics work and emotional labour; embodied emotion and teaching in FE; stress and anxiety in observations; feelings of shame; and teachers seeking personal recognition. Within these themes, examples show how Bourdieu’s conceptual tools, such as habitus, illusio and doxa, can be usefully applied to observations and teachers’ lived experiences. The interactional space between social and personal aspects of the narratives are illuminated by psychoanalytical, specifically Object Relations theory, including notions of feelings of shame and seeking personal recognition from the writings of Butler, Winnicott and Mollon. I integrate these ideas through a psychological and interactionist concept which has been termed the ‘narrative unconscious’ by Freeman (2010). This analysis provides insights into interpretations of teachers’ professional habitus and understanding how complex and fluid emotional experiences may impact on the process of observations.

Introduction In Part I, I explained my reasons for engaging with symbolic interactionism, and more specifically, interpretive interactionism as a multidisciplinary framework for the research findings presented in Part II of the book. These research findings are divided into the data from perspectives of the observee (teachers) in this chapter, and followed by the observer (managers’) data in the Chap. 6. For purposes of setting the scene for the participants’ introduction, I begin with a brief recap of the theoretical aspects that are relevant to the specific methodology of the context of the research. Following the summary of participants, I explain further aspects of the context of the actual observations and the embodied spaces. Then, each of the (six) themes that emerged from their narrative data are discussed, concluding with a discussion of how the emotional labour of teachers’ professional habitus could be © Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2017 U. Edgington, Emotional Labour and Lesson Observation, DOI 10.1007/978-981-10-2991-2_5

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useful in understanding the emotions of observations. In concluding, I provide a summary of the findings from these particular aspects of the research in the light of the aims of the book. In Chap. 1, I highlighted how my own insider researcher position was both challenging and beneficial to the writing of this book. Hence, before explaining in more detail the specific aspects of the emerging data and what this interpretive framework illuminated, it is necessary to first summarise how these methodological approaches may have impacted on the research process itself and why. I return to the broader issues surrounding this approach in the final chapter. As I descr