Arbetsmiljön i förskolan : En kvalitativ studie om förskollärares upplevelse av sin arbetsmiljö

Sammanfattning: Background: High demands are being placed on the preschool teacher in the preschool profession today. The conditions why preschool teachers' should be able to offer a good pedagogical activity is the work team's ability to cooperate together and also a pleasant working environment. Objective: This study aims to increase knowledge of preschool teachers' experiences of their work environment, how it affects them and what is perceived to promote a good working climate. Method: The study was conducted with qualitative interviews of six preschool teachers in the same municipality. The only requirement was that all preschool teachers were legitimized. Results: The analysis resulted in three categories: Preschool's everyday life, physical working environment and psychosomatic work environment. The result of these categories is that preschool teachers' experienced increased work tasks, large children's groups and a lack of time, which resulted in the workload being perceived as high This affects the preschool teachers' satisfaction in the work in the form of stress and a feeling of inadequacy. Despite a high workload in the profession, the result shows that all preschool teachers' felt that they had chosen the right occupation in view of the freedom of work and the children's contributing joy. Conclusions: The conclusions of this study shows that there are high demands on preschool teachers' today, but that the joy for the work and the preschool children is what contributes to the preschool teachers still remaining in the profession.