Faut-il former les enseignants afin qu’ils cherchent à diminuer les émotions négatives de leurs élèves ou qu’ils leur apprennent à renforcer leurs émotions positives ?

This article focuses on the impact that positive and negative emotions can have on students' school motivation. The role played by their self-confidence is also taken into account. The results (from a sample of 1 371 students in their last year of compulsory schooling, collected through a self-...

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Main Authors: Philippe A. Genoud, Gabriel Kappeler, Philippe Gay
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Language:fra
Published: Nantes Université 2020-06-01
Series:Recherches en Éducation
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/ree/519
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description This article focuses on the impact that positive and negative emotions can have on students' school motivation. The role played by their self-confidence is also taken into account. The results (from a sample of 1 371 students in their last year of compulsory schooling, collected through a self-reported questionnaire measuring socio-affective attitudes towards learning) confirm a strong link between positive emotions and school motivation. Negative emotions have a much lower and indirect influence (through the self-confidence) in the tested model. While one-shot measures only suggest a sense of causality between the pleasure of learning and investment, the establishment of a virtuous circle between these dimensions is quite plausible. Contrarily to the usual practice that advocates prioritizing anxiety in the classroom, our research raises the interest of focusing more on positive emotions, because it is these that have direct and stranger effects on students' school motivation. This change of focus should be extended to the training of teachers in order to better equip these professionals to develop and maintain positive emotions in the school. The ultimate goal is to intervene in a direct and targeted way on students’ school motivation.
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spellingShingle Philippe A. Genoud
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Faut-il former les enseignants afin qu’ils cherchent à diminuer les émotions négatives de leurs élèves ou qu’ils leur apprennent à renforcer leurs émotions positives ?
Recherches en Éducation
learning and cognition
learners' skills and behaviours
emotions and mental health
title Faut-il former les enseignants afin qu’ils cherchent à diminuer les émotions négatives de leurs élèves ou qu’ils leur apprennent à renforcer leurs émotions positives ?
title_full Faut-il former les enseignants afin qu’ils cherchent à diminuer les émotions négatives de leurs élèves ou qu’ils leur apprennent à renforcer leurs émotions positives ?
title_fullStr Faut-il former les enseignants afin qu’ils cherchent à diminuer les émotions négatives de leurs élèves ou qu’ils leur apprennent à renforcer leurs émotions positives ?
title_full_unstemmed Faut-il former les enseignants afin qu’ils cherchent à diminuer les émotions négatives de leurs élèves ou qu’ils leur apprennent à renforcer leurs émotions positives ?
title_short Faut-il former les enseignants afin qu’ils cherchent à diminuer les émotions négatives de leurs élèves ou qu’ils leur apprennent à renforcer leurs émotions positives ?
title_sort faut il former les enseignants afin qu ils cherchent a diminuer les emotions negatives de leurs eleves ou qu ils leur apprennent a renforcer leurs emotions positives
topic learning and cognition
learners' skills and behaviours
emotions and mental health
url https://journals.openedition.org/ree/519
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