Feeling Power: Emotions and EducationFirst published in 1999. Megan Boler combines cultural history with ethical and multicultural analyses to explore how emotions have been disciplined, suppressed, or ignored at all levels of education and in educational theory. FEELING POWER charts the philosophies and practices developed over the last century to control social conflicts arising from gender, class, and race. The book traces the development of progressive pedagogies from civil rights and feminist movements to Boler's own recent studies of emotional intelligence and emotional literacy. Drawing on the formulation of emotion as knowledge within feminist, psychobiological, and post structuralist theories, Boler develops a unique theory of emotion missing from contemporary educational discourses. |
Contents
CHAPTER ONE FEELING POWER | 1 |
CHAPTER TWO DISCIPLINED EMOTIONS | 31 |
CHAPTER THREE CAPITALIZING ON EMOTIONAL SKILLS | 60 |
CHAPTER FOUR TAMING THE LABILE STUDENT | 80 |
CHAPTER FIVE A FEMINIST POLITICS OF EMOTION | 108 |
CHAPTER SIX LICENSE TO FEEL | 136 |
CHAPTER SEVEN THE RISKS OF EMPATHY | 154 |
CHAPTER EIGHT A PEDAGOGY OF DISCOMFORT | 175 |
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