Kwok Kuen Tsang - The Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong, Room ۱۰۲, Hoi Oi Chow Science Building, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong.

In recent years, it seems that teachers in Hong Kong feel negatively about their work. To some extent, the negative emotional experiences may not only affect teachers’ well-being, but also the quality of schooling. Thus, it is necessary for us to pay attention to the phenomenon of teachers’ emotional experiences, especially the negative ones. In the literature, researchers have investigated teachers’ emotional experiences from the psychological perspective. Nevertheless, the psychological perspective may neglect the social impacts on teaches’ emotional experiences. The limitation may create an incomplete or inaccurate understanding about the phenomenon. In order to overcome the limitation, this article proposes a sociological research agenda for further investigation on the basis of symbolical interactionism

Teacher emotions , Interpretation , Education reform , School administration , Teaching purpose , Symbolic interactionism