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GUTIERREZ VIDRIO, Silvia  e  CUEVAS CAJIGA, Yazmín. Teaching trainees and the 2013 Mexican Educational Reform: emotions and social representations. Cultura representaciones soc [online]. 2019, vol.14, n.27, pp.257-279.  Epub 20-Jan-2021. ISSN 2007-8110.  https://doi.org/10.28965/2019-27-08.

The Mexican Educational Reform 2013 implied a series of modifications in the teaching admission process, which positioned teaching trainees before an unusual situation: to contend for a job with applicants from other professions; this triggered in them different emotional states. The purpose of this paper is precisely to analyze the emotions that 16 interviewed teaching trainees say to have experimented towards the reform and its link with the social representations they constructed in relation to it. The interviews are analyzed using a qualitative methodology for the study of emotions. The results indicate that the Reform activated in the interviewees different emotions, being sadness and uncertainty the most recurring. This is related to their social representation of the Reform since from their point of view the Reform conditioned their labor future by modifying the recognition of their professional activity as well as the admission channel to the teaching jobs.

Palavras-chave : educational reform; emotions; social representation; teacher’s college; teaching trainees.