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A Study on the Transformation of Pre-service Teachers’ Primary Professional Emotion Based on Transformative Learning Theory

Received: 13 January 2021     Accepted: 28 June 2021     Published: 9 July 2021
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Transformative learning theory concerns itself with the organic integrity of learners, and holds that man is a complete unity of biological, social and spiritual attributes. Man’s rationality, his sensibility and his spiritual perceptions underlie each other and interact with each other, so for a man’s overall sound development, not only the development of his rationality but also the development of his sensibility and spiritual perceptions should be highlighted. At present, the professional training of pre-service teachers is restricted by instrumental rationality, ignoring the development of mans’ sensibility and spiritual perceptions, which leads to the cultivating of rational instrumental people who lack professional emotions. Positive and stable professional emotions are the lasting motivation for teachers’ professional development. To break from the shackles of teacher education dominated by instrumental rationality, the paper studies to develop re-service teachers’ reasons, sensibility and spiritual perceptions, to build their stable professional emotions based on Transformative learning theory. By literature review and reflections based on supervisions of students’ field practice, this study finds that developing pre-service teachers’ rationality will promote their primary professional emotion from superficial to deep; developing pre-service teachers’ sensibility will promote it from volatile to stable; developing pre-service teachers’ spiritual perceptions will promote it from external to internal.

Published in American Journal of Education and Information Technology (Volume 5, Issue 2)
DOI 10.11648/j.ajeit.20210502.11
Page(s) 69-73
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Transformative Learning, Professional Emotion, Pre-service Teachers

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  • Faculty of Teacher Education, Nanjing Normal University Taizhou College, Taizhou, China

  • Faculty of English Department, Nanjing Normal University Taizhou College, Taizhou, China

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