Emotion and reflexivity: The path of a student named Martha in the course of receiving university and professional guidance
Guiding a student is a delicate activity built on frequently destabilizing, but transitory, experiences. To assist students during this process, universities set up pedagogical elements favourable to developing students’ reflectivity on their university and professional plans. This article looks at the guidance process of a university student in connection with various assistance modules. An explicitation interview was conducted to document the evolving dynamic of the student, and to help foster her awareness of this process. The interview brings to light complex forms of organizing reflective activity, within the synergy of lived situations that played a role in the student’s guidance. Close analysis of interview statements sheds light on crucial phenomena in the development of the individual concerned, and especially the paramount role of emotion in the process of reflecting on one’s own becoming.