The keynote for the third edition of the Research Week will be delivered by Dr. Mei-Lin
Chang, Professor of Applied Quantitative Research and Educational Analysis.
Dr. Chang received her Ph.D. in Educational Psychology at The Ohio State University and began her career as a Post-Doctoral Fellow and an Assistant Professor at Emory University before she joined KSU in 2013. Her scholarship has been published in Educational Psychology Review, Motivation and Emotion, Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, and Frontiers in Psychology. She has received American Psychological Association Division 15 Educational Psychology Early Career Grant, and she has served as an Associate Editor for the Frontiers in Psychology (in Educational Psychology).
Title of the keynote: Embracing the Emotional Self in the Teaching Profession: Teacher Burnout and Emotion Regulation in the Classroom
Description: Teaching is a laborious work requiring a great deal of emotional awareness, understanding and regulation to develop and maintain supportive relationships with students. It is well-established that teachers experience higher rates of stress and emotional labor than other professions. The scholarship of teacher emotion research has been flourishing in the recent decades, and existing literature has underscored the significance of teacher emotion in shaping teacher motivation, well-being, and instructional quality. Dr. Chang has studied teacher burnout, teacher emotion and emotion regulation in the past two decades, focusing on the sociocultural and emotional factors that affect both teachers’ and students’ engagement and motivation. Dr. most recent scholarship focuses on teacher emotion regulation including how teachers’ habitual ways of appraising classroom events affect their emotion regulation strategies, and how the individual and contextual factors intersect with different facets of teachers’ emotional experiences in the classroom.
Date: Monday, November 18th
Time: 11.00 am to 12.15 pm
Location: Interactive Research Methods Lab (room BEB 403). Chantal and Tommy Bagwell Education Building
Virtual attendance: Click here to join the event in Teams
