This paper focuses on conceptualizing the notion of "affective nationalism" in education by addressing some key theoretical and methodological considerations. Theorizing the concept of affective nationalism in education is crucial for two reasons. First, it takes into consideration recent theoretical developments on affect, materiality,…

Purpose: This study aimed to investigate the relationship between teachers' perceptions on diversity perspectives in schools and their happiness at work (HAW) levels. Design/methodology/approach: A correlational survey model was used in the study, and the stratified sample consisted of 768 teachers in public high schools in a province in the west…

Teachers' teaching self-efficacy and teachers' feelings of negative affect may be associated with students' academic achievement; however, little is known about how these factors directly affect adolescent students' math and reading achievement. The eighth-grade wave of the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study data was used to investigate teacher…

The current study is one of the first to investigate children's perceptions of quality in teacher-child relationships using a narrative measure. It is also one of the first studies to investigate how the child's report is associated with the teacher's report and with an observer's report of quality in teacher-child interactions. Participants…

This study examines 2 aspects of cognitive processing in person perception--attention and decision making--in classroom-relevant contexts. Teachers completed 2 implicit, performance-based tasks that characterized attention to and utilization of 4 student characteristics of interest: ethnicity, facial affect, body size, and attractiveness. Stimuli…