The Person in Between: The Emotional Work of School Principals
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to explore the emotional experiences of Saskatchewan school principals, and the efforts Saskatchewan principals take to process and manage these emotions; these efforts are known as emotional labour. Using an interpretivist approach, data were collected using semi-structured, informal online video interviews. Six participants, all current or recent Saskatchewan principals, were interviewed. There was significant variability in how these principals personally managed their emotions and emotional displays at work. \n\nThis study found that participants identified nearly all parts of their days as requiring emotional effort; the majority of this effort was identified as relating to the emotions of others. Therefore, this study suggests an extension of the definition of emotional labour to include management not just of one’s own emotions but also the emotions of others. While this study was not specifically gendered, obvious gender norms were identified by participants. Participating principals indicated that traditionally masculine ways of showing or hiding emotion are favoured over feminine ways, regardless of the gender identity of the individual leader. These social rules significantly influenced the way participants managed their emotions in the workplace.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".