"I Just Don't like that Kid": Confronting and Managing Personal Feelings about Children

Autor/in	Grossman, Sue
Titel	"I Just Don't like that Kid": Confronting and Managing Personal Feelings about Children
Quelle	In: Childhood Education, 84 (2008) 3, S.147 (3 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0009-4056
Schlagwörter	Altruism; Classroom Environment; Teacher Student Relationship; Teacher Attitudes; Coping; Equal Education; Teacher Behavior; Student Characteristics; Classroom Techniques; Individual Differences + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Altruistic behavior; Altruismus; Klassenklima; Unterrichtsklima; Teacher student relationships; Lehrer-Schüler-Beziehung; Lehrerverhalten; Bewältigung; Teacher behaviour; Klassenführung; Individueller Unterschied
Abstract	All good teachers try hard to treat each child fairly and kindly, with care and concern. Indeed, they are ethically obliged to do so (National Association for the Education of Young Children [NAEYC], 2005). As they are human, however, they may occasionally meet a child to whom they react negatively. It is not something to be proud of, but they must admit it honestly in order to work through it and thus ensure fair treatment of each child. The subject is only sparsely addressed in the early childhood literature and only a few references to teachers' feelings about specific children can be found. This is unfortunate; if ignored or denied, such feelings have the potential to do harm. Like steam in a pipe, feelings unexpressed or ignored will escape somewhere and may result in an outburst toward an undeserving child. In this article, the author offers some suggestions on how teachers could manage their personal feelings about children. Furthermore, the author states that all children deserve to be treated fairly, and with kindness and respect. Sometimes, however, teachers' feelings about a particular child make that obligation a challenging task. Thus, they must move past denial of the challenge in order to confront and analyze their feelings as a precursor to ensuring a psychologically and emotionally safe classroom environment for every child. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10