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<p>Education for sustainable development recognizes the ways, in which teachers improve education, by utilizing their skills to the fullest extent and reconsidering the conditions of the teaching profession. The relationship between teachers’ professional identity and teachers’ emotions is an issue that needs to be studied as a basis for improving the effectiveness of their professional activities. Thus, a standardized questionnaire was used to describe the characteristics of Vietnamese secondary teachers and the influence of teacher professional identity (TPI) on working emotions. The study was conducted in Vietnam using two survey instruments aimed to determine the role of TPI contribution in the different dimensions of teachers’ emotions (anger, fear, joy, love and sadness). Findings revealed that a higher level of TPI social dimension was among participating Vietnamese teachers, and a lower level was towards career with negative emotions such as anger, fear and sadness. In addition, higher levels of the institutional dimension of TPI were associated with lower levels of teachers’ feeling of joy in their career; and when the level of the personal dimension of TPI was higher, teachers’ sense of love towards their profession was higher. Three implications of the study are proposed to help promote teacher identity, in ways that contribute to positive emotion in executing their teaching task. In other words, when teachers had a higher motivation, satisfaction, and commitment, they could perceive teaching as a noble job and be full of positivity. This made teachers ready for professional development in compliance with sustainability education goals.</p>
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Education for sustainable development recognizes the ways, in which teachers improve education, by utilizing their skills to the fullest extent and reconsidering the conditions of the teaching profession. The relationship between teachers’ professional identity and teachers’ emotions is an issue that needs to be studied as a basis for improving the effectiveness of their professional activities. Thus, a standardized questionnaire was used to describe the characteristics of Vietnamese secondary teachers and the influence of teacher professional identity (TPI) on working emotions. The study was conducted in Vietnam using two survey instruments aimed to determine the role of TPI contribution in the different dimensions of teachers’ emotions (anger, fear, joy, love and sadness). Findings revealed that a higher level of TPI social dimension was among participating Vietnamese teachers, and a lower level was towards career with negative emotions such as anger, fear and sadness. In addition, higher levels of the institutional dimension of TPI were associated with lower levels of teachers’ feeling of joy in their career; and when the level of the personal dimension of TPI was higher, teachers’ sense of love towards their profession was higher. Three implications of the study are proposed to help promote teacher identity, in ways that contribute to positive emotion in executing their teaching task. In other words, when teachers had a higher motivation, satisfaction, and commitment, they could perceive teaching as a noble job and be full of positivity. This made teachers ready for professional development in compliance with sustainability education goals.

Exploring the Influences of Teacher Professional Identity on Teachers’ Emotion Among Vietnamese Secondary School Teachers

Hanoi University of Science and Technology

Journal of Teacher Education for Sustainability

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Education for sustainable development recognizes the ways, in which teachers improve education, by utilizing their skills to the fullest extent and...

Exploring the Influences of Teacher Professional Identity on Teachers’ Emotion Among Vietnamese Secondary School Teachers

Published Online: Feb 22, 2024

Page range: 143 - 164

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jtes-2023-0021

Keywords
Institutional, personal, teachers’ emotion, teacher professional identity, social

© 2023 Pham Thi Thanh Hai et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Exploring the Influences of Teacher Professional Identity on Teachers’ Emotion Among Vietnamese Secondary School Teachers

Published Online: Feb 22, 2024

Page range: 143 - 164

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jtes-2023-0021

KeywordsInstitutional, personal, teachers’ emotion, teacher professional identity, social

© 2023 Pham Thi Thanh Hai et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Keywords
Institutional, personal, teachers’ emotion, teacher professional identity, social