ABSTRACT
Environments where teaching and learning take place are emotional places, and as such, there has been a variety of scholars over the past 20 years who have investigated emotions in those educational contexts. Affective tendencies are somewhat stable predispositions toward certain ways of emoting. Researchers use the concept of temperament to describe, relatively stable, patterns of behavioral and emotional reactivity that are thought to be biological systems that represent early individual differences. Researchers in the area of biological or physiological psychology suggest a third potential influence on the development of affective tendencies. Emotional episodes are generally what we think of when people talk about the emotions in their lives. An important aspect related to the construction of emotional episodes is the social-historical nature of those constructions. Teachers’ work is a cognitive endeavor; it requires only technical skills but also emotional investments due to the relational nature of teaching.
