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“Shouting into a canyon” or “A golden goose Egg”: Understanding teachers’ emotional experience in distance learning through creative metaphor

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: Distance learning was a unique struggle for teachers, who reported some of the highest levels of stress among any professionals in the U.S. This study investigates teachers' emotional experience and creative development in COVID-19 pandemic distance learning through mixed method analysis of their generated metaphor about distance learning, integrating the circumplex model of affect and conceptual metaphor theory. Results present an overall positive shift in teachers' emotional relationship toward distance learning using complex and creative metaphoric representations. The emotional valence of teachers’ metaphors related to metaphor creativity and factors of teacher well-being. Teachers used humor often, mostly when representing unpleasant emotions.

Source: Methods in Psychology

DOI: 10.1016/j.metip.2025.100201

Authors: Ross C. Anderson, Mari Livie

Language: English

Topic: Education Practices and Challenges

Subfield: Philosophy

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Quality education

Open Access status: gold

Estimated APC paid: $1,840

Funders: U.S. Department of Education, Office of Elementary and Secondary Education