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This article represents our current reflections on our approach to inquiry on emotions in education. Our views reflect an eclectic blend of, educational, psychological, and social historical approaches to inquiry on emotion and emotional regulation. In an effort to explicate our approach, we address our working definitions of emotion and emotional regulation. Next, we discuss our views on transactions among cognition, motivation and emotions, as well as the methods and methodologies that guide our inquiry on emotions in education. We conclude with some of the problems associated with, as well as a discussion of why, in spite of the challenges related to doing inquiry on emotions, the study of emotions can be useful for improving educational processes.
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Schutz, P.A., Hong, J.Y., Cross, D.I. et al. Reflections on Investigating Emotion in Educational Activity Settings. Educ Psychol Rev 18, 343–360 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-006-9030-3
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