Abstract
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The emotions, for a long time cast out of the scientific field, today represent a
very productive and diversified field of research, and research on emotions in
the school context is currently experiencing significant developments. The
objective of this chapter is to present the main trends of emotion research
in the school context. In the first part, we briefly present two significant concepts corresponding to two approaches to the study of affectivity, which can
be considered either globally in terms of affects and moods, or in terms of
emotions. In the second part, we will see how these concepts are studied in
the school context. Lastly, we present a study on the emotional experience of
elementary school children before introducing a discussion on the possible
continuation of such research.