Emotional engagement at school transition

What is it about?

This paper explores how 11-12 year old students constructed their emotional attitudes to school, in school transition versus non-school transition settings. It puts forwards the notion of emotional attitudes: where emotions and affective states such as frustration and liking are used to judge the object of the attitude with, i.e. liking school. Using mixed methods analysis, we identified the most common school, home, transition and adolescent developmental factors that were given in students' rationales for why they felt a certain way about school.

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