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Sociocultural approaches to human development and mind have become a prominent theoretical perspective in teaching, and have also served as a framework for empirical studies on how teachers act, make decisions, and design learning spaces that lead to effective practice. However, it is not yet clear enough how emotional factors, along with cognitive engagement assist teachers in their job, how emotions influence transformative and relational agency, and more generally how emotions relate to problem solving and decision making processes.

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Promoted by seminars by three established scholars in this field aimed at building theoretical and methodological knowledge and participant discussion, the Roundtable aims to identify how taking into account emotional factors and teaching agency can enhance teaching practice overall, and aid research and theorising of teacher problem-solving and decision-making. Tentatively, this may include discussion of how methodologically approaches, such as e.g.narrative inquiry, can underpin a study of a role of emotions in teaching. There will be opportunities for Roundtable participants to add to this tentative agenda.

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Speakers will include:

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• Anna Stetsenko, Professor in Human Development and Urban Education at The Graduate Center, the City University of New York

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• Paula R. Golombek, Clinical Associate Professor of Linguistics, University of Florida

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• Anne Edwards, Emerita Professor the Department of Education, Oxford University 

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This three-day roundtable talk will take place in the University of Manchester

in Ellen Wilkinson Building in Room AG 3/4. 

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If you have an interest in Social Theories of Learning, you are warmly invited to this Roundtable and we would welcome your input. This is a free event. If you wish to participate in the Roundtable, please register on Eventbrite. Please note that we need to limit the number of participants. Once the maximum number of participants has been reached, we will no longer be taking any further registrations.