Study on the Influence Mechanism of Teachers' Emotional Engagement on Students' Learning Behavior and Its Enhancement Pathways
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https://doi.org/10.62051/jedss.v1n3.02Keywords:
Teachers’ emotional investment, Student engagement, Emotional education, Teacher-student relationshipAbstract
Teachers’ emotional investment exerts a pivotal influence on students’ learning behaviors. Nevertheless, the prevalent tendency of prioritizing knowledge over emotion persists in current educational practices. This paper sorts out the concept of teachers’ emotional investment and its impacts on students’ learning behaviors, and elaborates on the core functions of teachers’ positive emotional investment in satisfying students’ developmental needs, building trust-based teacher-student relationships, and conforming to the orientation of modern educational reform. In reality, however, teachers’ emotional investment is confronted with dilemmas including weak emotional regulation capacity and insufficient support from professional training. Its investment level is jointly restricted by multiple factors such as teachers’ professional identity, students’ classroom feedback, school organizational atmosphere and evaluation systems. Accordingly, this paper puts forward systematic optimization strategies from multiple dimensions: guiding teachers to establish correct professional ethics, boosting their sense of professional honor, constructing a supportive organizational atmosphere, improving teaching hardware facilities, advancing educational informatization, and upgrading teachers’ personal professional competence. The study stresses that education should return to the people-oriented value of fostering virtue through education, integrate emotional care into the whole process of daily teaching, activate students’ learning potential through emotional power, and lay a solid foundation for advancing high-quality educational development.
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