Exploring the Use of Pre-service Teachers’ Visual Narratives to Study Emotions

This chapter explores the use of pre-service teachers’ visual narratives to study emotions. Narratives tend to be understood as oral or written, but visual narratives are stories told through, by or with images and can evoke emotions and help to tell stories that might otherwise be overlooked. Prior research has made claims about the benefits of using visual narratives in research but has rarely focused on what the use of visual narratives enable when studying the emotions in the process of becoming a teacher. Through the visual narratives produced by one pre-service teacher and the other participants’ conversations around them in the arts-based workshop, we demonstrate how the use of visual narratives enabled the embodiment of emotions and collective emotions to emerge. The findings show how visual narratives can be used for studying emotions in the process of becoming a teacher.