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5 - Emotion

from Part I - Talk as Social Action

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 June 2022

By
Asta Cekaite
Edited by
Amelia Church  and
Amanda Bateman
Amelia Church
Affiliation:
University of Melbourne
Amanda Bateman
Affiliation:
Swansea University
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Summary

Emotional regulation is one of the skills children develop in early childhood, and norms of social and emotional behaviour are explicitly taught and implicitly embedded in early childhood curricula. This chapter discusses emotion socialization processes in preschool settings. It outlines how various emotions (sadness, laughter, empathy, compassion and others) are displayed and interpreted in social interaction by using language and embodied resources. The chapter provides examples of how emotion socialization is configured by teachers and children in early childhood education in various countries worldwide.

Keywords

emotionemotion regulationsocializationearly childhoodempathyconflicts
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Talking with Children
A Handbook of Interaction in Early Childhood Education
 , pp. 97 - 119
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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