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The International Sociological Association have accepted my abstract to speak in Vienna this July. Yay! I won't be wearing a dress made from curtains but this is what the presentation will be on, perhaps I'll see you there.   Photo 'Vienna' by Osamu Kaneko  ( http://bit.ly/1OuQFXF ) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/   A Managed Heart in relation to storytelling: how education policy shapes young people’s perceptions of emotion.   Literature searches indicate that Hochschild’s theories of emotion have not been linked to oral storytelling in an educational setting. In A Managed Heart Hochschild researched how flight attendants at Delta Airlines managed emotion. Hochschild proposed that people were trained to manage emotion in the workplace. This paper explores Hochschild’s theories in the context of educational policy and oral storytelling. A storytelling space was created in three schools in the UK, Warwickshire, in 2013. Analysis invo...