Emotional Labour in the Work of Early Childhood Educators International Research Perspectives

Introduction-Emotional Labour in Early Childhood Education: Emerging Themes and Perspectives in International Research, Mari Saha & Tamara Cumming Section 1:  Educators’ positioning within work environments 1. Exploring Early Childhood Teachers use of Emotional Labour as a Resource through Job Demand-Resources and Conservation of Resources Theories, Joanne Ng, Sandie Wong & Fay Hadley 2. Lived Paradoxes of Support and Scrutiny: Emotional Labor during Classroom Walkthroughs in Chinese Preschools, Sha Xie & Philip Hui Li 3. Towards sustainable working culture in ECEC: Fostering emotional labour and compassion in demanding work - a study protocol, Mari Saha Section 2: Socio-cultural and political aspects of educators’ emotional labor 4. Cross-Cultural Perspectives of Teachers' Experience of Emotional Labor in Nepal and the United States, Samara Madrid Akpovo, Sapna Thapa & Katie James 5. A hidden face: An exploration of early childhood leaders’ emotional labor in China, Jinjin Lu & Yuan Gao 6: Emotional labor and sociocultural understanding in early childhood educators:A qualitative study (example: Aegean region), Münevver Sehitoglu 7. Emotional Labor in Chinese Early Care and Education: Interpersonal Relationships, and Teacher-Child Interactions, Xiangyu Zhao, Si Chen & Lieny Jeon Section 3: Retheorising emotional labour  8: The Tacit Dimensions of Emotional Labour in Early Childhood Education and Care, Eva Mikuska & Nikki Fairchild 9. Politics of knowledge-about emotional labour in the work of early childhood educators, Tamara Cumming 10. Illuminating the professionality of early childhood educators’ emotional labour in their work with families, Melanie Kate Dickerson, Marianne Fenech & Tina Stratigos Conclusion-Reframing early childhood educators’ emotional labour through international research perspectives, Tamara Cumming and Mari Saha

Biography

Tamara Cumming is an Associate Professor and Associate Director for Workforce and Policy at the Children's Voices Centre, Charles Sturt University Australia. Her research focuses on educator well-being, the complexity of early childhood practice, and the sustainability of the early childhood workforce.

Mari Saha is an Associate Professor in early childhood education at the Faculty of Education and Culture, Tampere University, Finland. Her main research interests are diverse needs in early years, early childhood educators’, and leaders’ work-related well-being, as well as children’s stress regulation and well-being in ECE settings.