METHODS AND FINDINGS IN RESEARCH ON AFFECT AND EMOTION IN MATHEMATICS EDUCATION

This paper discusses examples of research done in the affective domain, using different types of ‘qualitative ’ methods, here classroom observation and semi-structured interviews. The issue is how a researcher's methodology conditions and constrains the findings that are possible. This issue is investigated by considering the different ways that the two methods / methodologies frame the social interaction between researcher and researched, and that among the various research participants