Lärare ska kunna allt : En kvalitativ studie om lärares upprätthållande av sin yrkesroll inom skolverksamheten

Sammanfattning: This essay aims to understand the teacher profession and how teachers' everyday lives look like in the school environment. The purpose is therefore to examine which challenges and strategies teachers have to face in their line of work. It also focuses on how their emotional expressions looks like and who they show these expressions to. The study´s based on a qualitative approach and the empirical material has been sampled through interviews with employees in the school system. The interviewed teachers are both male and female with a total of eight informants.   The study´s based on two theoretical concepts. The first is Erving Goffman´s theory about the dramaturgy perspective and the notion of impression management. The second theory is based on Arlie Hochchild´s conceptualization of emotions. These two theoretical aspects help me understand how the teacher profession has changed and how they manage to control their emotional behaviour in their occupation.   The results show that teachers managed to take on many types of roles to handle the challenges in their work environment. This study determines that the most common challenges in the profession is managing the time, the demands from different directions, reform changes and to maintain the professional face. The strategies to handle these challenges is the following four. The social support, how to manage the time pressure, how to handle emotions and their career ambitions.