The purpose of this study was to understand how elementary school teachers revealed feelings like joy, anger, sorrow and pleasure lying inside their professional lives, and how they maintained and controled these feelings to lead their lives. To achie...
The purpose of this study was to understand how elementary school teachers revealed feelings like joy, anger, sorrow and pleasure lying inside their professional lives, and how they maintained and controled these feelings to lead their lives. To achieve this goal, a qualitative case study was conducted to 5 elementary school teachers in Seoul. First, an usual day of elementary school teachers was a series of continuity, regularity and repetition. Also, they should keep busy hands with their students in the professional lives. Second, elementary school teachers felt joy through new findings drawn by their teaching, but were angry at societies and other people that ignored and confused them with the intereference and hindrance of class. On the other hand, they felt sorrow, when they could not but accepting insecure reality and found their limitation. However, they were very happy when they had a time with students in school. Third, elementary school teachers maintained positive feelings through looking back on the past and strengthening positive feelings. On the other hand, they appeased and endured negative feelings through delay of time and the conversion of situation.