Emotion will play an important part of the surveys and questions we will pose as we move forward with our teaching philosophies. No matter how impersonal you try to make a survey, when you ask students what they think about their own education or why they like/dislike some aspect of their personal life or exposures they are bound to let their emotions take the lead. This does not guarantee the best or certainly objective results.
"As Megan Boler reminds us, education teaches social and moral values, and such teaching is inextricably tied to emotional control. Emotional control occurs through taken-for-granted practices, what Daniel Gross calls “technologies of emotion." As Gross writes, the contours of our emotional world have been shaped by institutions: emotions such as anger presume a public stage, and our most powerful emotional responses are constituted in the social world (2). Recent scholarship on emotion deconstructs many of its popular connotations: for example, that emotion is distinct from reason; that it is a private, individual experience; that it has psychological, but not social or ideological, roots."
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