Emotions "Out of the Closet" and into the Graduate Classroom

Autor/in	Harris, Carol E.
Titel	Emotions "Out of the Closet" and into the Graduate Classroom
Quelle	In: Journal of Educational Administration, 48 (2010) 5, S.659-667 (9 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0957-8234
DOI	10.1108/09578231011067794
Schlagwörter	Critical Theory; Graduate Students; Action Research; Aesthetics; Organizational Theories; Emotional Response; Leadership Styles; Consciousness Raising; Affective Behavior; Correlation; Art Activities; Educational Administration + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Kritische Theorie; Graduate Study; Student; Students; Aufbaustudium; Graduiertenstudium; Hauptstudium; Studentin; Projektforschung; Ästhetik; Organisationstheorie; Emotionales Verhalten; Führungsstil; Bewusstseinsbildung; Affective disturbance; Active behaviour; Affektive Störung; Korrelation; Künstlerische Tätigkeit; Bildungsverwaltung; Schuladministration; Schulverwaltung
Abstract	Purpose: The purpose of this end piece, framed in aesthetic and critical theory, is to review the author's own approach with graduate students regarding the omnipresence and significance of emotion in organizational leadership, and to comment on the contributions to emotional theory found in this volume of the "Journal of Educational Administration". The objective in the author's own research is to assist students, through aesthetic awareness, in moving beyond "one-dimensional" thinking and the "iron cages" of organizational experience. Design/methodology/approach: As personal affect and perspectives of meaning were of primary importance in the author's research, she employed participatory action research methods. Qualitative data were drawn from students over a ten-year period as they responded to a question about connections between aesthetic presentations--given by their colleagues as short introductions to each class--and organizational life as they experienced it personally and theoretically. Findings: Aesthetics, understood not only as appreciation, but also as action, brings to students the illuminating power of multiple forms of expression. Through expression, that is, students named feeling, affect, and begin to understand the nature of emotion. The arts provide ways of expression apart from, and including, the spoken word. Originality/value: The arts, and an understanding of aesthetics, opens a rarely travelled route whereupon students may engage in organizational theory as a humane science. (Contains 3 notes.) (As Provided).
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