Bøje, Malene Morsing

Friis, Søren Hincke

Gonnsen, Terese Nexø

Hansen, Hans Feilberg

Sørensen, David Alexander Geil

Willaume-Jantzen, Marie Ella

This paper seeks to understand how pedagogues thrive in a school environment, and how this is affected by the management, co-workers and surrounding factors. The research has been conducted with the interest in the tension between the school pedagouges’ experience with well-being, and the management’s organization of the work environment. The study has been conducted through a workshop focusing on exciting and straining matters in the work environment, the workshop has been done with one department of a larger school. A follow up interview with the coordinator of the department has been conducted in order to compare how the employees see the management’s efforts on creating welfare in the workplace, and how the management seeks to create welfare. The aim of the paper is to get a better understanding of the complex work environment for school pedagogues, by using both empirical data gathered through the workshop and subsequent interview, by using theory to understand the psychological work environment. What we uncovered was that even though the pedagogues’ in general were thriving, there was several areas where there was a larger agreement that it was a strain on their general work environment, one of which being that they were under two managers since they were hired in both the school and in the after- school centre. This project concludes on the complexity of the many consisting factors and their relational connections, that centers around the understanding of a good work environment and the well-being of the school pedagogues

Good work environment and well-being of school pedagogues

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