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As the authors have done with the other concepts discussed in the book—for example, mind, individual, identity, self—and almost completing the list of the main ideas they approach critically, this chapter focuses on ‘emotion’, which has also till recently been mostly associated with our ‘inner’ side. This metaphor of emotions being ‘inner’ the body is deeply problematic, it is argued, because it is grounded in a set of dualisms that have no empirical basis. The chapter shows what this word does in education and what educators do with it, when they take it as an inner reality, especially in relation to contemporary fascination around notions of emotional intelligence and motivation.
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Bekerman, Z., Zembylas, M. (2018). Emotion, Emotional Intelligence and Motivation. In: Psychologized Language in Education. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-54937-2_8
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